Great-Grandma Thrives As Baker At Montco Giant At Age 94: Report

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — Wynnifred Franklin loves baking, loves working, and she shows no signs of stopping any time soon.

The 94-year-old mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother has been employed at the Giant supermarket in Audubon for more than 22 years, according to a recent feature in Philly.com.

Franklin, who reportedly "gets along with everybody," hasn't missed a day of work since she started. She works up to six days a week from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., often on her feet, bagging rolls, labeling them, putting them in a slicer, and then boxing other bakery goods like sticky buns, according to the report.

A native of Haddonfield, she worked in the accounting department at RCA Camden during World War II, then raised her children, then went back to work, including 20 years spent making motors for Transicoil before retirement in 1993, the report states.

But she soon grew antsy. She wanted more from life. The bakery was calling.

She ascribes her passion for work, even at her advanced age, to the Great Depression.

“We would see people that had lost their job and they lost their house and you learned from that how valuable [work] really is," she told the outlet. "You just don’t forget that."

Check out the full story over at Philly.com here.

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