Home city of Perth was always on California Carrie's mind

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A woman who grew up in Perth, Scotland spent happy hours in her old age ‘revisiting’ the Fair City virtually from her home in California.

Caroline Dunsmore died recently, on November 23, 2021 aged 97, but one of the pastimes she enjoyed in later years was to go on a trip using Google Maps to see how her old home in Scotland was doing and to ‘visit’ familiar streets.‘Carrie’ enjoyed a long life, including an important year which was spent translating for the British armed forces at Bletchley Park, home of the famous wartime code breakers.

Her son Frank Pipal got in touch with the PA to share the stories of Perth that kept her entertained in her infirmity. “My mother loved Perth,” Frank told the PA. “I think if she had been forced to sum it up as a place in one word, it would be ‘couthie’.“Given that trips home were no longer possible (even pre-Covid), we did quite a few ‘virtual tours’ with Google Street View these past years. “Carrie died two months ago here in Kenwood, California, where as it turns out she lived twice as long as she did in Perth. “She may have left, but Perth never left her.

Latterly as she declined into the gentle kind of dementia, she spent more and more time there.“And why not? The memories were good and her friends and family were all there as she remembered them.”Carrie was born on March 1, 1924 to Buchanan and Elizabeth Dunsmore.