State worker retires after 59 years on job

COLUMBUS (AP) -- After 59 years on the job, Ohio's longest-serving state worker has called it quits.
Vera M. Doughty, 83, retired Friday from her job as a program-delivery supervisor with the Department of Job and Family Services.
Doughty said computer technology is the biggest change she's seen during her career with the state.
"I'm not actually a computer person," said Doughty, of St. Clairsville, about 110 miles east of Columbus. "It doesn't come easy to me and I didn't really like that aspect of my work."
Doughty was 24 when she was hired for $119 a month to work as a clerk in the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation's Bridgeport office in eastern Ohio. She previously had worked in a gun factory during World War II.
Doughty said retirement was not an easy decision.
"I'm not really celebrating. But it feels all right because I have something else to do," she said.
Doughty will soon start a new job at a nursery school. She'll help children get their snacks and zip their coats. But, she said, they'll be on their own when it comes to computers.