Betty Reid Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011.
A school has been named after Betty Reid Soskin, the country's oldest national park ranger, on her 100th birthday.
"Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission," Director Chuck Sams said."Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation." Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
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