Eula West, 91, retired Wednesday as the lobby receptionist at the Sedgwick County Courthouse, where she worked for 49 years. She tells a story of how she once had to cut a sheriff’s lieutenant’s hair at the front desk.
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If you sit at the reception desk at the Sedgwick County Courthouse long enough, you might end up saving somebody’s job — or maybe somebody’s life.And Eula West sat at that desk for a very long time — since 1969.
Do the math and that’s 49 years, but who’s counting?
At age 91, Eula West finally called it a career.
“I’ve been here longer than most everybody’s been born,” she said, as she sat at her reception desk one last time before her Wednesday afternoon retirement reception.
West was the first face you’d see when you walked into the courthouse and the last you’d see when you left.
And she nearly always had a smile, whether she was bantering with the county government poobahs, helping a lost felon find the right courtroom. or selling bootleg peanut brittle under the counter at Christmastime.
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