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Patty Young ends 43 year career as Whitewater Postmaster
Patty Young with a few of the retirement gifts she received at a party held in her honor last week in Whitewater. Patty is retiring as Postmaster at the Whitewater Post Office after working, and living, in the building since February 5, 1974. Photo by Ashley Green.
The price of a postage stamp in 1974 was a mere 15-cents and though the first email was sent two years earlier, that form of communication wouldn’t become popular until some 20 years later. In February of ’74, Barbara Streisand’s The Way We Were was at the top of the Pop charts, President Richard Nixon was on his way to being impeached and in Whitewater, Mont., a small, shy young woman was at her first day at a job which would become a career for more than the next four decades.
“I was 22 years old and kind of freaked out and it was a little scary for me,” said Patty Young, Whitewater Postmast...
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