High School Senior Takes His Great-Grandmother To Her First Prom

Delores Dennison is only 89, so she is prom-eligible.

She missed her own prom, back in the 1940s, because money was tight for her family at the time. But this year, her great-grandson, Austin, asked her to be his date.

“He said, ‘Grandma, I want you to go to the prom with me,'” Dennison told the Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin. “I had a bad heart attack and stroke. ‘I’m not that good on my feet,’ I told him.”

But Austin, 19, was sincere about his request. He’d been inspired by a story from a government teacher whose brother had asked their own grandmother to prom. Dolores eventually said yes.

They went shopping for a prom dress and picked out the perfect purse to hold Delores’s inhaler, and then, on the night of the dance, had Austin’s dad drive them to Delores’s favorite restaurant, Bob Evans.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.