Woman retires after 6 decades of serving as village postmaster

Associated Press

CABLE, Ohio

An Ohioan who retired this year as the longest-serving postmaster in the United States says she most misses the daily interaction with the people in the village of Cable, about 35 miles northwest of Columbus.

The Springfield News-Sun reports a leg amputation forced 84-year-old Norma Jean Larry to retire from the job she’d had since 1948.

A fire tore through the post office building in 1955, but she kept up service by sorting mail in the dining room of the home she shared with her parents. She’d been planning to build her own house next door, but remodeled it into a post office and shipped it into town.

She now jokes that if she’s asked to remove her things from her workplace, the town won’t have a post office.