What would you do if your father had just been killed. Your mother had moved to an insane asylum and you are being sent to live with your strict grandmother. What will become of you? That was a question my grandfather had to ask him self, when he was nine years old. My grandfather is now 77. He was born on February fourth 1926. His name is Stephen Harding Wolf. Throughout his life he faced many hard ships. I am inspired by what he was able to overcome and how he dealt with crazy situations.
When my grandfather was eight years old his parents got divorced. One year later his father had gotten remarried. My grandfathers father, John Wolf was a pilot. On his honey moon his plan was to have one his pilot friend to fly him and his new wife to their honey moon in Reno, Nevada. The plane crashed into a mountain from a weather related cause. After his fathers death his mother went kind of cr
My grandfather told me all about his years with his grandmother. She was very strict and insisted on good grades and perfect manners. He told me how he would put spinach in his pockets and then hose it out after his grandmother had gone to sleep. The only really good thing about him living with his grandmother was that she was very rich. Her property was on the grounds of something government related so she got paid to keep the area clean. He didn’t have any jobs when he was a teenager but he liked to help the gardeners with the yard work and sometimes he helped load trucks with workmen.
My grandfather went to a private school. He was in class with two other children. He said that he was the second smartest and the second dumbest. When he got in trouble in school his teacher whipped them with a belt and sometimes she used a thin stick on the hands. He got in more trouble at home
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