
America's oldest national park ranger retires at age 100
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest active ranger, retired on Thursday, just a few months after celebrating her 100th birthday.
(CNN) — Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest active ranger, retired on Thursday, just a few months after celebrating her 100th birthday.
Soskin spent over a decade working at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park after joining the service full-time in 2011, according to a statement from the NPS. The park, located in Richmond, California, aims to highlight the work and experiences of American civilians on the World War II home front.
"To be a part of helping to mark the place where that dramatic trajectory of my own life, combined with others of my generation, will influence the future by the footprints we've left behind has been incredible," Soskin said in the NPS's statement.