'It was just pure joy': Charlotte family reunites after getting COVID-19 vaccine
Hannah Smoot, The Charlotte Observer
Apr. 12—Shirley Hoffmann met her youngest great-granddaughter for just the second time on Monday in Charlotte.
It hasn't been distance keeping her away from her family. Hoffmann, 87, lives near Asheville in Arden, just two hours west of Charlotte.
"I told my family, I can't take a chance of getting this (virus), because then I will become a burden on you," Hoffmann said.
Hoffmann's husband died 31 years ago, she said. She lives alone in Ardenwoods Retirement Community with her dog.
But on Monday, she reunited with her son Scott, and his daughter's family, including two of Hoffmann's great-grandaughters: 2-year-old Gracie and 7-month-old Margot, because she has been vaccinated.