Oldest worker dies at 105

A Gardener named Jim Webber from Stoke Abbot, Dorset in England, died from old age at his care home. He would've been 106 on Christmas Eve.

Mr Webber has been working in Dorset for 93 years, but was told last year to quit after his arthuritis got the better of him.

Karen Webber, his daughter, told the local newspaper: "It was his love for being outside that kept him alive, I think. When he was 104 and the autumn came, he stopped because it was getting cold and damp."

Born in 1902, Mr Webber started working as a carter (a person who transfers goods by wagon or cart), then he became a farm labourer in Stoke Abbot in 1933. He bought and owned the farm from 1944 til his first retirement in 1975.

His wife, Dorothy, died aged 95 in 2001, and to keep himself busy, he and his brother started a gardening business until his brother, Jack, died aged 95 last year. Jim kept up the gardening business at a local pub called The New Inn, but had to retire, for the second time, in Spring 2007.

I read this in my local paper and just found it amazing, but I did write it in my own words.