Photos: Home Depot’s oldest U.S. worker, 100, gives tips for a long life

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Photos: Home Depot’s oldest U.S. worker, 100, gives tips for a long life

Home Depot's oldest U.S. employee, JoCleta Wilson, is a 100-year-old breast cancer survivor that has some simple tips to a long, healthy life.

“I retired three different times — 10 years each time in retirement, and it is not what it’s cracked up to be. I got so tired of myself,” Wilson told Today.com. “I had to get out of the house and come back to work and see what was going on in society. … I have a lot of fun.”

Wilson started working at Home Depot in 2022, but she spent her earlier years traveling the world as a dancer for June Taylor and operating her own dance academy. Since then, she’s beaten cancer three times, faced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and received a pacemaker. None of that keeps her from dancing today.

Retirement wasn’t much to Home Depot’s oldest U.S. employee, JoCleta Wilson — a 100-year-old breast cancer survivor that has some simple tips to a long, healthy life.

Two days a week, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., JoCleta Wilson is on the clock. She’s no average worker, however. Born Oct. 4, 1924, in Louisville, Kentucky, the 100-year-old former dancer and business owner now spends her mornings working as at Home Depot’s oldest U.S. employee.

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“I retired three different times — 10 years each time in retirement, and it is not what it’s cracked up to be. I got so tired of myself,” Wilson told Today.com. “I had to get out of the house and come back to work and see what was going on in society. … I have a lot of fun.”