1 day ago · Betty Reid Soskin was married twice during her lifetime. Her first husband was Mel Reid. The couple tied the knot in 1943 and divorced almost three decades later in 1972.

1 day ago · Betty Reid Soskin was the oldest full-time National Park Service ranger in the United States. She married twice during her lifetime and had four children with her first husband.

Ranger Betty Reid Soskin was married to her first husband for nearly 30 years. Before Betty was making history as a civil rights activist, and long before she became the oldest serving National ...

Betty Reid Soskin (née Charbonnet; September 22, 1921 – December 21, 2025) was an American ranger with the National Park Service, assigned to the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front …

13 hours ago · Ms. Soskin’s most important role was as a mother to her four children—Rick, Bob, Diara and Dorian Reid—whom she raised in Walnut Creek with her husband, Mel Reid. Following their …

1 day ago · Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest park ranger in US history, is no more. She had turned 104 in September, three months before her passing. Reid Soskin’s family confirmed her death in a recent …

In 1945, she and her husband, Mel Reid, founded one of the first Black-owned music stores, Reid’s Records, which operated until its closure in 2019.

1 day ago · Later, she and her husband Mel Reid founded a record store called Reid's Records, which closed in 2019. Soskin became a permanent National Park Service employee in 2011, at age 85.

In 1945, Soskin and her husband founded a small Berkely music store—Reid’s Records—and she became a prominent Bay Area community activist and an advocate for the legacy of women Home …

1 day ago · Betty Reid Soskin, Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Dies at 104 She began working as a park ranger at age 85, educating visitors about the women and people of color who served on the home …