It’s an achievement nearly 90 years in the making.
Centenarian Marie Hunt received her high school diploma Friday after dropping out of school 87 years ago to help take care of her eight younger brothers and sisters.
“I was born in 1911 and there was no way that country kids six miles away could go to high school,” Hunt explained to WISC-TV.
When Hunt’s hospice nurse at Meadows Assisted Living found out that graduating from high school was a lifelong dream, she arranged a ceremony at the home with the high school Hunt would have attended all those years ago.
The principal from River Valley High School handed over the diploma to Hunt saying, “It’s my great honour as a high school principal to be part of presenting you with an honorary diploma.”
“It was a dream I always had, but one that could never be fulfilled,” said Hunt. “It says I’ve had a successful life.”
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