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Mon November 25, 2002

97-Year-Old Librarian Named Oldest Working Kansan

Credit Associated Press
Martha Smith, of Vinland, is the librarian at Coal Creek Library. She has been the librarian off and on since she was in her early 20s.

A 97-year-old woman is the oldest working Kansan. Martha Smith of Vinland, Kan. has been tending the Cole Creek Library for most of the last 67 years. Her great uncle helped found the library in 1859.