Educator retiring after 54 years of teaching in East Central Illinois

PAXTON – Arcelia Watson is ending a tireless career in education at the end of this month – a career that spans five decades and touched the lives of hundreds of people in the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school community.

"She has sprinted into retirement," said Superintendent Cliff McClure. "She has given it her all every day. Like everything else she did, she did it right."

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