Penny's Retirement Celebration!

After 42+ years of dedicated service as an Administrative Professional who helped others with an untiring drive of pure energy that was always presented with a smile and love, our beloved Penny Wolfe is retiring on July 17, 2020.

Penny has undoubtedly touched in many unmeasurable ways every man and woman who ever worked for the Fulton County Fire Rescue Department where she started her career soon after it was formed in 1978.  Like me, you may have received the "phone call" and heard her voice offering you a job.  Over the years, Penny listened to many of our problems.  Once the issue was in her hands, if at all possible it would be resolved.  Calling Penny and having her call you by your first name was sometimes surprising and always a reassuring moment.  

In order to give retirees an opportunity to come together to share a laugh and tell war stories, Penny has organized the Retiree's Breakfast for over fifteen years, to include sending the inivatations, purchasing the food and creating gifts and those coveted ID cards.   And, she has become the Chief Correspondent for all news, celebrating the accomplishments of others and tenderly sharing the moments of sorrow.   

Once FCFRD responded to its last call, Penny transitioned to the City of South Fulton Fire Rescue Department and continued to positively impact the careers of many. Her most recent assignment has been with the City of South Fulton HR team.  She was transferred from the fire department because her highly regarded qualities and skills were immediately recognized by the City management team.
 
Hopefully, we all can come together to celebrate Penny with a good ol' fashioned fire station retirement dinner after this COVID-19 event.  For now you can celebrate her and show your love by supporting a dream that she has shared over the years.   That dream is to take a sightseeing road trip with her husband David along the east coast.  Also, Penny enjoys woodworking.  Where does she find the time...?  I am sure she will purchase the latest tool to add to her ever-growing workshop. 

I hope you will support this fitting gift for a wonderful person and friend who had the utmost respect for firefighters and believed that her job was to make life a little easier for all of us.  In her own words, as written in the FCFRD 25th anniversary yearbook, she stated: My role here has always been in a support capacity, assisting our members in whatever their needs may be.   Now, when I think back to times when I have helped someone, at the end of our conversation when they say "thank you" and I say "my pleasure"...it really has been.  

Though Penny never donned bunker gear and fought fire beside you, she was an essential part of the team (family) who was always ready to help.  It is now our time to appropriately welcome her to the D-Shift.   

Let's meet or exceed the goal!!!

The total amount will be presented to Penny on July 16th or 17th (her last day in the office). Feel free to pass this info to anyone who you think will want to participate. But, LET'S KEEP THIS A SECRET, do not use old mass emails or post to social media because she may be a part of the group.

Thank you,