Can you give me some suggestions for questions to ask when I write profiles?

Question

I am editor of a club newsletter and sometimes do short profiles of members. What can I ask to elicit interesting information and make the interviews original?
These are elderly people, so keep it clean, please.

Answer 1

1. How long was your engagement?
2. Where did you meet?
3. What did you receive for Xmas when you were 10 years old.
4. What kinds of punishments were dished out by teachers in your grammar school.
5. What was your best present your every received before the age of 15?
6. What did you do on your first job?
7. Did you learn to sew and/or knit?
8. What was your first car? What year?
9. Did you like school?
10. For women: Did you ever think about going to college?
11. Men: Would or did you go to college?
12. Were you drafted or did you sign up for the military service?
13. Where were you stationed?
14. Where did you fight?
15. Do you think about those days?
16. Did you keep in touch with other soldiers after the war?
17. Did you join the VFW
18. What sports did you play?
19. Did you plan your life like the young people do today?
20. How much did your first house cost?
21. How did the Great Depression affect you?

Those are just some of the questions I used to pester my grandmother about from the age of 12. I was always fascinated by the "olden days."