L.A.’s ‘Employee of the Century’ Dies at 100
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Less than a month after retiring on his 100th birthday, long-time county transit employee Arthur Winston died in his sleep on Thursday evening.
Winston missed one day of work in more than 70 years, and that was to attend his wife’s funeral in 1988. In 1996, he received an “Employee of the Century” citation from President Clinton.
Winston worked at the MTA and its predecessor agencies for 76 years. For decades,Winston reported to work at a bus yard at the crack of dawn to supervise a crew of workers as they cleaned and refueled the region’s bus fleet.
Winston was born in Oklahoma and began picking cotton at age 10. In 1924, he found work with the Pacific Electric Railway Co., a forerunner of the MTA.
