Millie Parsons was the longest continually serving employee in the history of the FBI during a career which lasted 62 years, nine months and two days. During that time she never called in sick and was only late once when she got stuck in a stalled elevator.
She started as a junior-clerk typist in 1939. She later served as the secretary to the Special Agent in charge of the Washington D.C. field office under two dozen different bosses. Before the agency started hiring female agents in 1972, she occasionally posed as the companion to undercover agents.
Mrs Parsons, 99, died on October 21, 2012 at her home in Silver Springs, MD from coronary heart disease. Her husband died in 1967 after 25 years of marriage. She left no immediate survivors.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
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