Susan Kelley and Grace Kelley

00:03 Hi, I'm Susan Kelley. I am 57 years. Old. Today is Saturday, November 27th. 2021. Our location is Tallahassee, Florida and I am here with my mother Grace Kelley.

00:20 I'm great. Mother Kelly.

00:28 89. Today's date Saturday 7. And where are we? What city does? It has been, Florida?

00:46 You're my daughter. Yes.

00:49 So, where are you from? Originally?

00:56 Wow, and where is that? It's not on the map anymore. Where is that? It's Haifa is in the Mediterranean, in the Mediterranean, is what country is it called now?

01:14 It's Israel.

01:16 The company is called Israel. And how did you end up coming to the United States in the United States and Paris the same as your husband, and then has been like a few years, I didn't go into nursing the island to Goshen, in which was no idea. What would what did you want to do?

01:56 I wanted to go back to

01:59 Israel, which was then Palestine and work there.

02:05 But my parents told me not to come and Goshen, Indiana when you ended up your education. Oh, and who did you meet in, South Bend, Indiana?

02:36 I'm at my.

02:38 Yes. Yes, so I do remember how he thought? What were you doing? When he thought you were being so studious? What were you doing?

02:51 In his class. I was driving others to my family and he thought I was thinking of

03:01 Yes, you are at filling out. Those blue are male form. Where you? That's where you guys met. And so, just going back a bit, but special thing happened on your graduation day. As my father, surprised me and came.

03:37 At the graduation. I've been home. I love you. And you did see your father. He's flown all the way from Palestine to be is your graduation. And you were so surprised when you saw weren't you and what is the students staged? And I didn't. So, going back to living in Indiana and after you married dad. So, how did you end up in Tallahassee?

04:37 Florida.

04:39 Became.

04:42 Who here in Tallahassee, Florida? To remember what you left back in Indiana? That was one of your favorite things that you gave up for the move?

05:09 Oh My Piano yet you gave up your piano but I have lots of padding for me, you remember? And he asked you what you would rather either diamond ring or a piano and you pick the piano take you still have it today.

05:39 Yes, I still have the piano today. When you came to the United States you how did you travel?

05:55 The United States.

05:58 Biplane.

06:01 Service by boat and then a big ship, right? Yes, and you got to the Pompeii.

06:12 It's and then remember you said that you were in the ruins and you were playing and with some other friends on the boat. And you heard the ship's horn you guys ran down. So the choice be late because we are so it's moving and I thought, if the ship left that is why did Grandpa wants you to leave at 19?

06:56 Palestine because the Lord was started their yes country, like my older brother, John, you sent him to Canada, but I love rock. And what did you do? When you first came to the state?

07:30 And just make sure their house is the rest of her summer. Yes.

07:43 Yes, she was volunteering at the hospital.

07:50 And it was wasn't it. Was it a tuberculosis Hospital?

08:01 And have their weapons degree if you work there and hang out with her.

08:11 Yes, it was good thing, love me and crying every night and they had me come in room with her.

08:24 Yes, and then she ended up her family ended up sponsoring you.

08:30 In the United States. So you can come to the United States.

08:35 And then then went to school and college in Kansas and then to the Russian College in Indiana. Yes, and then you married dad and you came down to Tallahassee, Florida. And what did you do when you came to, Tallahassee?

08:59 I was nothing in the hospital, and

09:06 And you were nothing. And then when dad got his Ph.D., What what did you guys do?

09:14 I went to work in a hospital.

09:23 Started teaching classes.

09:28 Yeah, he was in charge of the intern at Southwestern.

09:40 And then Grandpa came to visit when Tom was born. Thomas, my brother, my younger brother, and I was born in Indiana before you guys came down and

09:55 So, he came and

10:00 Met dad and visited and then what happened during the Six-Day War?

10:11 In Jerusalem.

10:13 Your grandpa.

10:18 Well, they were remember. They were they were at the Garden tomb.

10:26 Where the Protestant the stay in this day and inside the team during the Six-Day War.

10:42 And then if they stay there and they were going to stay in Jerusalem and during the Six-Day War. They went to hide in the Tomb grandma.

10:55 And Grandpa and their secretary and then Grandpa went to the gate and they heard him say hello, and unfortunately, what happened?

11:10 He got. He got spot and then Grandma moved to the state. Yes, but they

11:19 And then Grandma came to the states after that and she moved to Los Angeles. So yes and William and let's see. Tell me some stories about Grandpa.

11:40 It was the wonderful man.

11:44 Will do everything for you if you need to come. Yes, and he used to feed people, right? Every month, his family fed people in that where they live and you didn't have any money and what happened?

12:14 He remember you told them just like just like a 18 year old teenager would and you told him that you you know, you doubt it what he said. He said that he was going to go. He had a basket empty basket and he had no money and he was going to go down and go shopping to remember that and what happened when he went to the market.

12:45 The Horizon.

12:47 Biggest food. Yes, there was a man that saw him and said, mr. Everywhere and he's like, I owe you money, and he said, God would provide and he went down to the market build his basket and he came back and proved you wrong. Didn't they? Yes, you were surprised weren't you?

13:21 And then so you and Dad worked at Southwestern State Hospital and

13:31 You as a nurse and staff development and Dad as a psychologist with his PhD and he was the first psychology there. Wasn't a yes. Jim Kelly dead. In fact, you still have friends that good friend from The Internship.

14:06 Yeah, those were those were fun days, and I'm so

14:13 What would you like to be remembered for?

14:18 The things that I have done.

14:21 Yeah, the good thing.

14:25 Yeah, like he served on the cross committee at church.

14:31 Remember what that was about?

14:36 What was that? What happened? Oh, well, you you basically.

14:44 You would wait for people to call and when they called, and need, you would give them some money towards some of their bills. And yes, you would. Yeah, because the church had a closet just for food for people that were in need.

15:11 And what about? Let's go back to college and tell me about your choir director. What did he want you to do when you got out of college?

15:25 You are good with this bad.

15:27 Msdh.

15:31 College students. Yeah, but what did he do? Remember what he wanted you to do in New York City?

15:39 Become.

15:42 Opera singer.

15:44 Remember how he wanted you to go? He said he had connections in New York and he wanted you to go to New York City, opera singer Laura. Yes, it does.

16:02 Yes, he wanted you to go and become an opera singer and you told him, what? When he said that.

16:12 No, I wasn't going to do that.

16:20 And you wanted to take care of the sick and the, who do you think inspired you to be a nurse? I mean, I know you wanted to help the sick, but who do you think inspired you?

16:37 Wasn't it, you know, your parents and then doctor Landy. Who ran the TV Unit TV Hospital in?

16:46 In Palestine. Now was the TV unit. Wasn't it near Jerusalem?

16:55 Yes, but you had a lot of inspiration on both sides of your family and you ended up since you Grandpa was a minister.

17:12 In the he was a minister and Grandma was basically a stay-at-home mom, but her mother is a little. See. What was what did she do?

17:28 Maybe love this picture. So you actually followed in her footsteps, by teaching. When you went to, when you worked at Southwestern, State Hospital in south, Georgia, basically, Thomasville, Georgia, and he followed in her footsteps, by teaching. Yes, and there was well, I always say it was kind of funny. But what about the time when you when they asked you to be another great, remember? What did they want you to do? And that was made in the 70s.

18:19 Black, yes, they wanted you to pretend that you were African-American. And what did you tell them? Wonderful? That was so inspirational. I still tell that story to my students at school cuz I'm an English teacher. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And

18:51 So, so you want to be remembered as a good person giving?

18:59 Yeah, and caring. And do you have anything else? You would like to say?

19:06 Yes, you're always even in your retirement. You wanted to help people like that, aren't they? Yes. And

19:25 Yeah, this is why you know, we're doing this today so that it will be

19:33 As a legacy to you in the kind of person you are. So Mom. I just wanted to thank you so much for doing this interview for me.

19:51 I just this is something precious to me, and

20:00 Thank you, Mama.

20:04 And I'm parking at that. I have to come in in order.

20:09 And my son has autism.

20:16 Go to Legacy Hall, boys, and one, girl.

20:21 Yes, but you're like a c.

20:25 And I thank you so much.

20:30 Thank you.