Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest active ranger, who helped shape the creation of a park honoring the millions of workers in World War II defense jobs, among them women like her who persevered while facing racial discrimination, died Sunday at her home in Richmond, California.
Soskin was born in 1921 and became a National Park Service ranger in 2007. By Mason Leath December 22, 2025, 11:31 AM Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, has died at 104 years old.
Betty Reid Soskin, famously the oldest park ranger in the United States when she retired in 2022 at the age of 100, died in Richmond, Calif., on Dec. 21. She was 104 years old.
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest ranger, died Sunday. As a ranger, she shed light on the painful reality of working on the WWII home front as a Black woman.
Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the nation's oldest park ranger and relayed firsthand accounts of segregation as a Black woman on the World War II home front, died Sunday at her home in Richmond, Calif. She was 104.
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