Meet my Grandmother Smith. She was born September 5, 1900, and lived to be 94 years old. She was married to my Grandfather for more than fifty years and they had four children and twenty grandchildren. She was perhaps the most important influence on my personality outside my immediate family. She was my day care until I was four years old and my sounding board by correspondence from my high school years right up until she died. She was a wonderful lady, patient, kind, virtuous, faithful, resourceful, intelligent, gentle, and above all, loving. I think if everyone in this world had a grandmother like mine, the world would be a much happier place.