MilkomedaDec 16, 2024

What questions would you ask a 108-year-old woman?

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What questions would you ask a 108-year-old woman? - sh.itjust.works

My great-grandma is 108. I’m thinking of documenting her life in writing. She’s had an extremely interesting one. She was born in Berlin to a wealthy family, had a long-term affair with an older, married man from ~ the age of 17 who went missing in 1945. In the 1950s she married an American (my great-grandpa) and moved to the US. Little backstory. Looking forward to the question suggestions.

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The last time I spoke with my Paternal Grandmother was her 103rd birthday. She died about 2 months later.

She had completely lost her short term memory, but was otherwise still cognizant and her long term memory was perfectly intact. She was born in 1901 and died in 2004, so she saw a LOT of history. Three of her sons fought in World War 2 and one did not come back. She saw aviation go from sticks and canvas biplanes to jets.

So that is what I asked her about. Things that happened in her life in the distant past and if her mind started following a string of memories, I shut up and just listened. There are things I know about my family that I doubt my Dad, who died this past February, even knew.

Dec 16, 2024 at 6:58pmWeb