On April 30, Brownsville postal clerk Carla Pearce hung up her blue uniform and stamped out for the last time.
After serving Brownsville’s mail needs for 30 years, Pearce entered retirement.
Strategically, her husband, Troy Pearce, also logged his last hours on that day after a 20-plus-year career with logging company Ron Staley Enterprises.
Carla Pearce started as a substitute rural carrier associate in 1995.
At the time, first-class stamps cost 32 cents and the US Postal Service issued special stamps commemorating or featuring designs such as the cherub in the Love Series, aviator Bessie Coleman in the Black Heritage Series, prisoners and missing of war, American culture, World War II, carousel horses, woman’s suffrage, jazz musicians and comic strip classics.
