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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 12 > Runner and beekeeper, 106, was named oldest U.S. worker

Runner and beekeeper, 106, was named oldest U.S. worker

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 12, 2009

QUINTER, Kan. — Waldo McBurney, who was designated as America’s oldest worker and gained fame in his later years as a competitive runner and beekeeper, has died. He was 106.

McBurney, whose life spanned an age of horse-drawn buggies to computers, died Wednesday at the Gove....

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