For city fire marshal in Va., retirement means doing his job
BRYAN MCKENZIE, The Daily Progress
June 5, 2021
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Stephen Walton officially retired in 2008 but his career kept on going. Now it’s old enough to start thinking about a retirement of its own.
The part-time assistant Charlottesville fire marshal is working on 50 years as a paid public safety employee with the city. Currently reviewing fire protection plans, he joined the city police department full time in 1972 and left five years later for a full-time job as a firefighter.
He’s actually been with the city longer than a half-century, starting out as a volunteer firefighter in 1969.