Topic > Speech about my great grandfather - 1008

He came to America and had to learn to speak English, but he became a very successful doctor and real estate developer. He was known as "Doc Long" and graduated in acupuncture before it was even known in the United States. He was very creative and invented all kinds of inventions which he patented. He married and moved to Kansas City, where my great-grandmother grew up. When he was older, my great-grandfather lived between his home in Arizona and his 200-acre estate on the Osage River at the Lake of the Ozarks. He was much loved by all the people of the city of Warsaw, Missouri. He even became the town's honorary mayor and sheriff and took part in a parade down Main Street every year. He also donated the land for the town's high school where inside there is a plaque dedicating the school to him. The Kansas City Star newspaper wrote about my great-grandfather when he wanted to build a golf course on his property and did it himself. He hired a famous golf course designer to design it, but it was actually my great-grandfather every day, with his bulldozer and backhoe, who created what was known in the 1970s as one of the finest private golf courses ​18-hole course in the United States. Unfortunately, after her death, my great-grandmother had to sell the estate because the golf course made it very expensive to maintain, but my great-grandfather certainly enjoyed it while he was alive. He developed much of Lake Dei