WALKER, Mich.—A 97-year-old woman has received an honorary diploma from a Michigan high school, eight decades after she was forced to drop out to help her family.
Margaret Thome Bekema finally was
able to don a mortarboard and fulfill her lifelong goal in front of her friends
and family on Thursday. School administrators from Catholic Central High School
in Grand Rapids presented her with the diploma at the Yorkshire and Stonebridge
Manor senior community in Walker.
Bekema would have graduated with
the Class of 1936, but she left during her junior year to care for her three
younger siblings because her mother was ill with cancer.
She said leaving school at age 17
broke her heart and she's thankful for the recognition. Grand Rapids is about
160 miles northwest of Detroit.
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