Nellie Viola Teets ("Granny" as she was affectionately known to many people in her later years) started writing these memories of her life in 1985, and she continued working on them off and on over the years while she lived in her apartment in the retirement complex Golden West Manor in Boulder, Colorado. The sections which follow are in the order she wrote them rather than in the order in which the events of her life occurred. The one exception is the last three sections, which were written for a class Nellie took in the late 1980's or early 1990's while living at Golden West Manor.
These memories were typed up by Nellie's grandsons Russ and Rich Teets and by their wives Janice Teets and Mary Pickett. Mary also compiled the photos in the appendix. Elsie Teets edited both the original hand-written memories and later the typed manuscript.
* Most of the section titles were written by Nellie. Those added by the Editors are marked with an asterisk.
June 14, 2001