RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA (AP) – The United States’ (US) oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired on Thursday 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 programme to the public and visiting with coworkers”, a Park Service statement said.
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.
