My Grandparents

Both of my paternal grandparents are alive, but my mum’s parents are dead. They died a few years ago. Their life story is amazing. Let me tell you a little about their past life. 

 

My grandfather, Ralph, was born in 1929 in Germany. At that time, people’s lives became worse and worse every
year, so in 1933, his family moved to Los Angeles in the United States for a better life. In 1939, when World War
II started, my grandfather’s dad didn’t go to war because he was ill. After the war, my grandfather went to college in 1953, and there he met my grandmother. They got married in 1960, but they didn’t have kids for 4 years afterwards. My mother, Linda, is their fourth child. She was born in 1975. After my mother was born, my grandfather changed his job and moved to New York. And that’s why I’m a New Yorker. 

 

My grandmother, Susan, was born in New York in 1934. Her family were originally from England, but they lived in New York. However, her family moved to Los Angeles because her parents were in the film industry and Los Angeles was the centre of filmmaking at the time. When my grandmother was 18 years old, she went to college and met my grandfather there. And you know the rest of the story from then on!