She persuaded her daughter and granddaughter to change their names, and Stromberg agreed to take the name Bertheau at his marriage.
At another point, he lamented the effect the investigation had had on his family, telling reporters that his granddaughter had recently changed schools because she had been subjected to taunting.
"Expect to see change," the granddaughter said, clutching her smart phone to her chest.
From the outset, Ms. Gayle said, it was she who changed her granddaughter's diapers, prepared the feedings and rocked Davion to sleep.
"To be honest it's my granddaughter playing football that has changed how I feel about the women's game.
Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
Still, his granddaughter's life is about to change forever.
The grandmother, who has lived through the civil rights era, wonders if times really have changed, and if her granddaughter's generation really is colorblind.
Filmmaker Anna Keyes, granddaughter of Wallace Broecker, interviewed him about climate change and climate skepticism.
He says he was motivated to make climate change a core issue because his granddaughter has asthma and he worries about pollution.
At one point, Edwina Santos, one of Jose's four children, slipped into a bedroom to change 4-week-old Desiree, the granddaughter Jose never saw.
