Hairy Hill Postmaster Retires After 40 Years

Hairy Hill Postmaster Retires After 40 Years

Michelle Pinon News Advertiser

Betty Desmond has been the face of Canada Post in Hairy Hill for 40 years.

On Friday morning, (October 30) she was finishing up the last of her duties while serving a steady stream of customers and fielding phone calls.

Her cheerfulness was contagious as she greeted each customer with a big smile and words of kindness as they picked up their mail and parcels. She giggled as they bantered back and forth during their visits.

Postmaster Betty Desmond on retirement day.

(Michelle Pinon/Photo)

There were plenty of giggles coming from Betty, who naturally exudes warmth and charm, spreading joy through her kind words and actions. She made sure every customer knew about her husband Jack’s “tailgate party” as he insisted on supplying goodies and coffee for folks who dropped by. That was until he got called away to help their son Wes who was stuck in the field.

However, Betty kept insisting they, (customers) help themselves to treats and take some of them home. Betty said her mother-inlaw ran the post office before her. She still had to “earn the job on her own” and felt this job would be a good fit for her as she and her husband were already living in Hairy Hill.

In the beginning, they operated the post office out of their home. Later they moved to a farm that was close by and put up a shed that would serve as the post office until her last day on the job.

Read the full story in the November 11, 2020 edition of the News Advertiser - now online! https://issuu.com/thenewsadvertiser/docs/vna_20november_2011_2c_202020_20-_20web