CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Some people can’t wait to retire, others are a bit hesitant, and then there a few like Ruben Tramill, still going at age 90, who don’t seem to like the idea at all.
Tramill is a full-time employee, helping out with veterinary and other services at Animal House Veterinary Clinic on Dover Road. This year, he will have spent 26 years at Animal House. “I want to go on just as long as I can,” he said.
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Originally from Kentucky, Tramill said his father was a sharecropper, and he worked on the farm. In 1953, he came to Clarksville as a teenager to live with his grandparents. He got a job with a veterinarian and hasn’t stopped since.
“I started regular in 1957, going out on animal calls, helping deliver some calves and other stuff. I helped deliver calves and do C-sections, just about everything. I guess I was called a veterinary assistant back then,” Tramill said…