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Years of Loyalty Pay Off for 91-Year-Old Dallas Worker.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2002
By Michael Precker, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 6--Juan Covarrubias says he's retiring, but you can forgive anybody who might be a little skeptical. He's set a hard-working, no-complaining example for four generations of his family, and he's failed at retirement in both previous attempts.
Then again, he'll be 92 this summer.
"Everybody always asked me why I don't retire," Mr. Covarrubias says. "I tell them I work for my health and because I like to work. But it's about time."
So dozens of friends and co-workers at Anderson News prepared a festive lunch, hired some mariachi musicians and gathered to hug the colleague they all call "Grandpa."
"We all figured that was his real name,"...
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