Two longtime postal workers to hang up uniforms for good

Both are retiring this week

Terry Stone delivers the mail Wednesday at an apartment complex off Hutton Lane. Stone, one of the longest-serving postal carriers in Jefferson City, plans to retire at the end of the year to run his cattle farm in Centertown.
Terry Stone delivers the mail Wednesday at an apartment complex off Hutton Lane. Stone, one of the longest-serving postal carriers in Jefferson City, plans to retire at the end of the year to run his cattle farm in Centertown.

For Jefferson City's two longest-serving postal workers, it's retirement - not snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night - that's finally stopping them from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

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Whitney Gibson, Randi Rodgers, Amanda Ward, Nalley Smith and Keaton Gregory

For Terry Stone, 65, his rounds in the future will include running cattle on his Centertown farm. As for Bob Schellman, 62, he plans to spend more time volunteering and with his grandchildren and 96-year-old mother.

Both men are retiring this week.