My Biography
...r grandmother, Rebecca. She remained a cute little farm girl for a time, crawling around in the yard, picking up anything she considered edible, sometimes not considered edible by others. It was not too long until the family was moved to Kannapolis, North Carolina, where dad worked in a grocery store. Dad had not been as accepted by the Rape family as one might want to be. After all, he was only a high school graduate, whereas Sadie had gone off to Wingate College and then to Montreat, way up in the mountains of North Carolina. She was a school teacher and had also been a principal of a two-room school where Ray had been a student. This sounds interesting, doesn’t it? However, he insisted on dating Sadie even after her father said “no.” He was very persistent which was his personality all his life. This showed up in the rearing of his children, too. I was the recipient of some of his insistence. Of course, I only remember the things that I was told in stories of these years. Dad’s family was from the Von der Burgs of Germany. Actually, both Dad and Mom’s families were from th...