The Terraces at Towne Lake

"The complex was brand new when I moved in," said DeBate. I would visit my son who lived nearby and we watched it being built." DeBate was spending as much time as she could in Atlanta visiting her grandchildren, and hated leaving town. "I felt horrible when I would leave," she remembered and knew it was time to retire from her work in New York and move to Atlanta. Christopher Oquendo/AJC Special