Most people who make it to their late 90s have long since stopped setting an alarm. JoCleta Wilson still sets hers.
Two mornings a week, the Louisville, Kentucky, woman worked the early shift at the Westport Road Home Depot, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., according to a September 2024 report from WAVE. At the time, she was weeks away from her 100th birthday and was described as the oldest Home Depot employee in the entire country.
She has a reason for picking the morning. “That’s when I’m 100%. After that, you only get 50% of me,” she joked to the station…