Pics: Cobb Schools Celebrate Retiring Employees

WEST COBB, GA -- Cobb County School District recently recognized 223 retiring employees at a luncheon at Roswell Street Baptist Church. One of them, Barbara Furr, drove a school bus for 45 years before parking it for good recently.

“I was 32 years old when I started and here I am 79,” Furr said in a Cobb schools news release. “It (the time) went so fast.”

The retiring workers logged a combined 4,733 years of service at the school system, seeing it grow into the second-largest in Georgia and the 23rd largest in the United States.

Those retiring employees in Cobb's 35-year club include:

Brenda Cole, a secretary at Pickett’s Mill Elementary; Jill Dawes, School Leadership Intern at Mount Bethel Elementary and Debra Hughes, a teacher of special needs students.

Those in the 36-year club are: Barbara Duckworth, a bus driver, and Charles Raymond Davis, a Head Custodian at Harrison High School.

Furr, who will turn 80 this fall, said that while she doesn't know what she will do to pass the time, one thing remains the same: “I miss the kids,” she was quoted as saying.

Images via Cobb Schools