Waldo McBurney, 106, who was named America’s oldest worker and gained fame in his later years as a competitive runner and beekeeper, died Wednesday.
McBurney, whose life spanned an age of horse- drawn buggies to computers, died at the Gove County Medical Center in his hometown of Quinter, Kan., according to the Schmitt Funeral Home.
In 2006, he was named America’s oldest worker by the Washington-based Experience Works, which provides training and employment for senior citizens. At age 104 he was still spry and agile, walking most days the few blocks from his home to his downtown office in his High Plains farming community.
Robert Short, 76, the author and theologian who wrote “The Gospel According to Peanuts,” died Monday.
Short died in Little Rock, Ark., said the Little Rock Funeral Home. A cause of death was not immediately known.
The Presbyterian minister wrote “The Gospel According to Peanuts” with the blessing of the cartoon’s creator, Charles Schulz. The book first was published in 1965.
