A 97-year-old woman on Thursday finally received her
high school diploma, 79 years after she was supposed to graduate.
Margaret Thome Bekema, who would have walked with
the Catholic Central High School class of 1936 in Grand Rapids, Mich., had to
drop out in her junior year to care for her cancer-afflicted mother. She later
did clerical work for the armed forces and served as a preschool teacher.
Over the summer, her family contacted the school and
shared her story. Upon receiving the honorary diploma at Yorkshire and
Stonebridge Manor senior community, she said, tearing up, “I don’t know how to
express my thanks… I’m sorry. I’m just plain chicken.”
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