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Article: AT 95, BEACH MAN - ``AN INSTITUTION'' - RETIRES EVER SINCE HE GROOMED HORSES AT AGE 10, WILL ASHMAN HAS BEEN ON THE JOB.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1997
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Byline: PAM STARR, STAFF WRITER
VIRGINIA BEACH -- Will Ashman's first job, at the age of 10, was grooming his family's horse and cleaning out her stall.
On Monday, at 95, he retired - a bit reluctantly - from his last job as the paid coordinator for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program. It was a position he had held since 1977.
Supervisor Millie Aven had mixed emotions with the ending of Ashman's impeccable career. Ashman placed hundreds of volunteers in different charities and businesses in Virginia Beach, saving public and private companies hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
``He is just a prince of a man,'' said Aven, the ...
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