Cleveland crossing guard turns 100 years old, and she's still on the job helping kids

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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Anna Lark turns 100 today. She intends to celebrate by doing what she has done for the past 47 years -- helping schoolchildren safely cross the road.
Cleveland's oldest municipal employee works as a crossing guard at the corner of Lee Road and Tarkington Avenue. Every morning and afternoon during the school year, she shepherds dozens of students from Emile B. de Sauze Elementary School across four lanes of busy traffic.

She took that post on Sept. 17, 1962, according to the city. Lark is now protecting the grandchildren of some of the first children she guided across the street on Cleveland's southeast corner.

But don't ask her about retirement. (more)

Read more: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/cleveland_crossing_guard_turns.html

[liberal N proud]

1. To be able to still do at 100

WOW!

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. Wow! That's fantastic!

Good for her. :)

On edit: and good for those children to see what true grit really looks like.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. She maybe looks seventy. Maybe.

Freaking amazing.

[slackmaster]

4. I enjoy stories like this because they remind me of two of my great-grandfathers

The first time I met one of them, he was 92 and working as an elevator operator at a hotel in a small city in Kansas. He'd held the same position for decades.

The first time I met the other, he was 86; up on the roof of a house under construction, installing shingles.

I hope I am able to join the "Wellderly" if I am fortunate to live that long.

[Seedersandleechers]

5. What a wonderful

story to have read while getting ready to go to work. This wonderful women is my hero for the day.

[Demoiselle]

6. And I love her name!

How many poets have written joyful odes to larks? Yes, a great way to start the morning.

[KittyWampus]

7. oh, I know someone wh owas a crossing guard. Lovely story