Rock Hill 90-year-old surprised by visitor. At her job.
All Nora Gaulden wanted was hotdogs. She got 90 roses and a cake bigger than the table it sat on.
The employees of Springs Creative and family of the 90-year-old “employee of the decade,” threw Gaulden a birthday party. At her job.
Gaulden still works, even though she thinks about retiring. She has worked at Springs for nearly 50 years. The great-grandmother greets truckers as they enter the warehouse, she said. For years, someone has brought her coffee and another person buys her a sausage biscuit each morning.
“I enjoy my work more than anything, because that’s my family,” she said. “You couldn’t help but love the job.”
But one of the biggest surprises on her birthday, Aug. 27, was a visitor who traveled more than six hours from Washington, D.C. to pop into her party. Congressman Ralph Norman walked up behind Gaulden and surprised her.
“It was just the nicest thing,” she said.
Gaulden’s daughter Sandy Stilley, a Rock Hill High School classmate of Norman’s, said her mother thinks of him as her adopted son. Gaulden has a photo of him in her office and he surprised her with a Congressional coin at her party, Stilley said.
“I thought it was very special that he made time,” Stilley said.
