H-E-B just lately honored its longest working grocery retailer worker, Ofelia “Ophie” Garcia.
Garcia labored on the Texas-based chain for 56 years previous to her latest retirement. In celebration, the town of Austin formally proclaimed Dec. 22 “Ophie Garcia Day.”
“Rising up as a migrant employee on the age of 12, and having little or no schooling, I’m grateful to have acquired work coaching and schooling at H-E-B,” Garcia instructed Wholesome Dwelling Group. “I’m extraordinarily humbled and honored to have been acknowledged by the Metropolis of Austin of their proclaiming December 22, 2021, as Ofelia ‘Ophie’ Garcia Day.”
Garcia added, “I’m deeply grateful and appreciative to the town and H-E-B for this excellent proclamation.”
H-E-B (“Rising up as a migrant employee on the age of 12, and having little or no schooling, I’m grateful to have acquired work coaching and schooling at H-E-B,” Ophelia Garcia, 84, instructed Wholesome Dwelling Group.)
The 84-year-old great-grandmother was honored for her achievements at Austin’s Oak Hill H-E-B, the shop the place she labored since 1965. She is the corporate’s longest serving retailer worker, together with her tenure the general longest within the firm after Charles Butt, the grocery store’s CEO and chairman.
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The Oak Hill resident of 32 years has lengthy been a staple in her group, bringing mild and pleasure to numerous H-E-B clients. For a few years in her lengthy profession at H-E-B, Garcia labored as a cosmetician within the cosmetics division, earlier than turning into a door greeter and serving to with Spanish translations within the pharmacy and enterprise middle earlier than her retirement.
H-E-B just lately honored its longest working grocery retailer worker, Ofelia “Ophie” Garcia. Garcia labored on the Texas-based chain since 1965 [56 years] previous to her latest retirement. (H-E-B)
Garcia hardly ever referred to as in sick and insisted on working throughout climate emergencies and throughout the pandemic. In early 2020, Garcia was named to Household Eldercare’s “80 Over Eighty,” which celebrates Central Texans ages 80 and up whose actions, service and knowledge encourage the group. Garcia has additionally been celebrated as “Queen for a Day” on the retailer.
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H-E-B (Ofelia “Ophie” Garcia, an 84-year-old great-grandmother, was honored for her achievements at Austin’s Oak Hill H-E-B, the Texas retailer the place she labored since 1965. )
“We will by no means do sufficient to honor the sustaining contributions of our frontline retail staff,” Austin District 8 Metropolis Council Member Paige Ellis mentioned in a press release. “The standard of life in our group wouldn’t be as sturdy and vibrant with out heroes like Ophie Garcia and her colleagues.”
