Grandma Graduates from College

Grandma Graduates from College


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(KSL News) -- A Utah woman achieved today what she set out to do more than 60-years ago, graduate college!

85-year-old Betty West had to drop out of BYU years ago to watch her children after her husband got called to World War II.

But when she became a widow recently, her daughter challenged her to finish college. Today she joined more than 26-hundred graduating students during commencement exercises held on campus.

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