95-Year-Old Teaches Great-Granddaughter to Walk in Touching Photo

A photo of Anna Kraus with her great-granddaughter Collette has gone viral.

ByABC News
December 2, 2015, 11:31 AM
Anna Kraus, 95, photographed with her great-granddaughter Collette, 9 months, walking together the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
Anna Kraus, 95, photographed with her great-granddaughter Collette, 9 months, walking together the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
Andy McNeil

— -- A sweet photo of a 95-year-old woman and her great-granddaughter using their walkers together is downright adorable.

"I thought it would be funny if my grandma would show her how to walk," Andy McNeil of New York, N.Y., told ABC News. "It was a funny little idea. I had no idea that the picture was going to become as big as it did."

McNeil said it was the Sunday before Thanksgiving when he and his family gathered in New Orleans for the holiday, along with his 9-month-old niece, Collette, and his grandmother, Anna Kraus.

After noticing the baby was holding onto objects to support her walking, McNeil said his sister-in-law and Collette's mother Nicole decided to buy her a "toddler walker" to match the one her great-grandma was using.

"We had them walking next to each other," McNeil said. "Grandma just laughed the whole time. She absolutely loves Collette. Her wish before she died was just to meet this little girl."

McNeil posted a picture of the pair using their walkers in his mother's kitchen to Reddit, where it racked up over 720,000 views.

McNeil said his grandmother loved the photos he snapped of her and Collette during their second meeting and is shocked by all the press it's received over the past week.