The National Park Service says 100-year-old Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/World War Two Home Front National Historical Park.
RICHMOND, Calif. — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
The National Park Service says Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/World War Two Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. She helped found the park that pays tribute to the efforts of American civilians on the home front during World War II.
Soskin led tours at the park and related her experience as a Black woman working on the home front during the war. Soskin was a civil rights activist and a businesswoman before she won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84.Her retirement party will take place this Saturday at the park.
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Betty Reid Soskin, nation's oldest park ranger, retires at 100 years oldBetty Reid Soskin, the oldest active National Park Service ranger, retired Thursday following more than 15 years sharing stories of her life and those of other working women during World War II at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond.
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Oldest U.S. Active Park Ranger Retires at 100The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
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Oldest U.S. active park ranger retires at 100The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
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Oldest U.S. active park ranger retires at 100The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
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100-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, nation's oldest park ranger, retires'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,' said Betty Reid Soskin.
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