Ethnographic Interview Project I decided to interview my grandma, Doris Boggs, for my interview project. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana and because of the five hour distance I rarely get to spend time with her. When my grandfather, her husband, passed away last spring I realized how little I knew about them and when we received this project I thought it would be the perfect way to preserve some of the important things from her life. She was born Dorris Mae Deiter on November 26, 1927. So, she had just turned 88 the day before our interview. She wore a white turtleneck under a black fleece jacket that had fall leaves sewn on it paired with black slacks. Her hair was snow white and cups just under her ears. She is a tall caucasian (German and Dutch) woman with with a large frame. More hunched over now from age makes her look shorter and she now has a limp when she walks from bad knees. Before our other guest arrived for Thanksgiving dinner at my house we sat down at the kitchen island for the interview and I gave her a christmas mug
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The four most important men in her life served in the US army. Her father suffered daily from a nervous condition he developed from inhaling gas from WWI. Ansel, her oldest brother, was her “buddy” and they were very close. He was shot and killed a few days after her birthday during her senior year of high school. She explained to me that she still has the little wooden cowboy boot pen he sent her from her birthday that year. She started crying at this point which broke my heart because there is nothing worse to me than losing your best friend. Her son Gary was in Vietnam. She pondered that he doesn 't talk about it much but she told me about some his stories that she knew. The forth man was her husband, Robert Boggs. He was shot in France the spring of her senior year but was treated in a hospital there and survived. For his bravery and leadership in combat he was awarded a purple
The four most important men in her life served in the US army. Her father suffered daily from a nervous condition he developed from inhaling gas from WWI. Ansel, her oldest brother, was her “buddy” and they were very close. He was shot and killed a few days after her birthday during her senior year of high school. She explained to me that she still has the little wooden cowboy boot pen he sent her from her birthday that year. She started crying at this point which broke my heart because there is nothing worse to me than losing your best friend. Her son Gary was in Vietnam. She pondered that he doesn 't talk about it much but she told me about some his stories that she knew. The forth man was her husband, Robert Boggs. He was shot in France the spring of her senior year but was treated in a hospital there and survived. For his bravery and leadership in combat he was awarded a purple