POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A 92-year-old Pompano Beach woman who was still working in a Burlington dressing room to keep up with her monthly bills is getting a chance at retirement thanks to strangers who have raised more than $55,000 on her behalf.
April Steele had been shopping at the Pompano Beach Burlington a few weeks ago when she noticed an older woman working in the dressing room. The sight, she told WSVN, immediately struck her. Steele told reporters she thought the employee “had to be in her 80s,” and it stunned her to learn the woman was 92.
“My heart sank,” Steele said. “I thought, why is a 92-year-old woman working? It just seemed unbelievable to me.”…