Sumter school groundskeeper celebrates 60 years working [Video]

SUMTER, S.C. — Nearly 60 years of service to the community is the milestone that one Sumter School District groundskeeper is approaching as he heads into his sixth decade in that role.

“Work hard and stay young,” Fulton McFadden shares. “That’s what my mother and father says. Work hard and stay young.”

It’s the motto that 75-year-old McFadden has taken into work since the 1960s when he began working in the district. McFadden says he started at 16-years-old, cleaning the kitchen at his alma mater, Eastern High School now known as RE Davis College Preparatory Academy.

“My uncle come to my house. It was raining. One morning about 9 o’clock and he came there and he asked if I want a job. I told him yes. And the next day I come and I started working …