Facts & Figures
The thing that is special/cool about Grandma's birth date
What is 1/23/45?
The name of the high school Grandma attended
What is St. Elizabeth's Academy?
One of the hospitals where she worked as a pediatric nurse
What is
St. Louis Children's
University Hospital in Columbia
or St. Anthony's in Oklahoma City?
She and her siblings sold these treats out of her their family station wagon on hot summer nights
What are sno-cones?
The age at which she met her future husband
What is 14?
The age at which Grandma got married
What is 22?
She was a member of the first graduating class of nurses at this local college
What is Meramec?
She famously gave this to students who visited her school nurse's office in Germany with no visible symptoms.
What were lemon drop candies?
Her favorite Air Force base assignment
What was (Ramstein) Germany?
Her favorite candy bar
What is Butterfinger?
The church where Grandma got married
St. Stephen Protomartyr in south St. Louis
In college she was known to eat this to make beer palatable
What is chocolate or Hershey bars?
The name of the school district where she worked as school nurse and administrator at the end of her career
What is Mehlville School District?
She occasionally had to help her friend drive her car in college by doing this
What is pull the string to work the windshield wipers?
How she spelled her nickname for "Suzanne"
What is SUZI?
The number of states she gave birth in
What is four?
She went back to school to earn this degree when her kids were mostly grown
What is a bachelor's degree?
An award she won:
Best Knitter in high school
Top Extemporaneous Speaker in debate competition
Missouri School Nurse Administrator of the Year
What is Missouri School Nurse Administrator of the Year?
She got a concussion at the age of 17 doing this
What is falling off of her bicycle?
The reason she rode the city bus to Cherokee Street during the summer when she was ages 10-14
What is for sewing lessons?
The number of addresses at which she has lived
12, 19, 23, or 31
What is twenty-three?
She may have not passed this class on the first try in nursing school
What is Chemistry?
The state of Missouri awarded her for serving as a nurse for this many years
What is 50?
She played this lead role in her school play (not the name of the character, just the type of career)
What is NUN?
One of the places to which she has had season tickets?
What is the Fox, the Muny, or Stages?