Work ethic taught at Elmore County Training School
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Cliff Williams / TPI When Pattie Grasper first arrived in Wetumpka, she enrolled in the seventh grade at the Elmore County Training School. It was jn a brick building behind the main building built in 1924. She would graduate from the school in 1959 and recalls a daily prayer meeting.

No one would say a word if Pattie Glasper stayed at home and didn’t work.

She has had both knees replaced and at 82, the Wetumpka native has earned her retirement. The knee replacement has slowed her. She works only two days a week instead of five. Her family has urged Glasper to live out her days without work, but it wouldn’t sit well with her.

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