RICHMOND, Mo. (AP) – Fifty-five years on the job have earned a receptionist in a northwest Missouri office of the state Social Services Department the title of “Older Worker of the Year.”

The director of the Department of Health and Senior Services bestowed the honor recently on 75-year-old Ruby Daniel, of Richmond, at a luncheon at the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City.

Daniel began working in the Family Support Division office in Ray County in the 1950s and has trained most of her supervisors over the years. Her current supervisor, Karla Polson, says Daniel started on a typewriter and has since become an ace with computers and other machinery.

She’s also missed just 12 days of work in 55 years – and, says Polson, donates her vacation days to a shared leave fund for her fellow employees.