A look at Madison County’s new senior center director

“The paper was just lying there, open to that page, as if it was meant to be,” he recalled. “I’d known Eloise (McCurley) for many years, so I got cleaned up and went over there.”
When he walked in, McCurley looked up from her desk, smiled and said, “Joe, how are you doing? I hope you’re here to apply for the bus driver job.”

From then on, Dudley became one of the regular faces at the center, driving the shuttle buses to pick up and drop off center attendees, delivering Meals on Wheels, running errands, helping out in the office, doing custodial work, whatever was needed.

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