Work until you're 100? Some people do...

This is not the kind of story I typically share here, but I think this lady is probably pretty cool... 

The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100...  

 Betty Reid Soskin retired last week after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.

 

Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to 

the public and visiting with coworkers,” a Park Service statement said.

She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white,” according to a Park Service biography.   

“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”

Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September. 

Soskin in a photo from 1942, choosing flowers

 for her wedding to her first husband, Mel Reid.

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Man - I wish I could find out who she is...
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