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Taylor Odisho

Missouri Elementary Honors Beloved Custodian by Naming the Entire School After Her: 'I Just Do It for the Kids'

A Missouri school renamed its building after its beloved janitor, Claudene Wilson, who retired in July 2023. (Credit: CBS Evening News/YouTube)

A former janitor for an elementary-middle school in Missouri was swept off her feet when the school board unanimously voted to name their building after her in honor of 32 years of service.

The K-8 center, which is home to 40 students in the small town of Swedeborg, Missouri, was renamed to the "Claudene Wilson Learning Center" in August to commemorate Wilson's decades-long career in which she moonlighted as the school's handywoman, plumber, bus driver, and therapist when the kids needed her, CNN reported.

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