Betty Reid Soskin, the country's oldest active National Park Service ranger, retired Thursday at the age of 100. "Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission," NPS Director Chuck Sams said in a statement. Her parents joined her maternal grandfather, who had resettled in the Bay Area city at the end of World War I. During World War II, Soskin worked in a segregated union hall as a file clerk, where she said Jim Crow was ever present. She said she is immensely grateful for the opportunity to share her life experiences as part of her job with the park service.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 02, 2022 14:46 UTC