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SALT LAKE CITY -- A service-minded woman who makes working at age 97 look easy wins this week's High 5.
Hanna Pearl Wilding has been working at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Family History Library since 1994. She suffered a stroke years ago and now uses a walker, but she doesn't let that stop her.
"If I make 100 I'll be awfully happy," she said.
Hanna works three days a week, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and doesn't sit down except on her lunch break.
Her co-worker, Linda Moore, nominated her for the High 5. "You really can't complain when you have a 97-year-old who takes TRAX every day and walks about a quarter mile," Moore said.
Hanna spends her days teaching patrons how to use the library's records and find information about their heritage.
Elder Jess, a missionary who works in the library said, "Especially when a person is unfamiliar with this, she shows them how to operate, how to get the information. She is just tremendous."
"Patrons come from all over the world," Moore said. "They make sure she is here and they always come up and give her a hug."
Hanna also has seven children, 49 grandchildren, 107 great-grandchildren, eight great-great-grandchildren and two more on the way.
As part of the High 5, our partners at Les Schwab gave her a gift basket, and UTA paid for Hanna to ride TRAX for three months.
If you would like to nominate someone for a High 5, click here.
