Published: June 21, 2008 11:25 pm            

Brake retires from Coyle School

After 27 years of service to Coyle Public School, friends and family of Nancy (Goble) Brake gathered at the Coyle Christian Church for a retirement party in her honor. On May 16, more than 80 guests helped usher in her retirement with a surprise reception hosted by Donna Gunkel, Carol Costner and Michelle Costner, former co-workers .

She was showered with numerous gifts during the reception including a large card signed by every Coyle student, a box of cards from well wishers who weren’t able to attend and a money tree. The money tree (actually a pear tree) was later taken home and planted in her yard.

Brake started work in the school in 1980 as a salad and vegetable preparer and four years later was promoted to cafeteria manager, a job she took over when her mother, Alta Faye Goble, retired in 1984 after 24 years of service.

Brake is a lifelong resident of Coyle having graduated from CHS in 1968. All six of her children also attended school in Coyle including her youngest daughter, Katie, who will be a sophomore in the fall. She also has a granddaughter, Ivy, who is a junior and will be the fourth generation of their family to graduate from Coyle High School.

Also honored during the reception was her husband, Vernon Brake, who served as a bus driver and custodian for 30 years at Coyle Schools before his retirement in 2004. For the last three years, he has volunteered in the cafeteria cutting fruit every morning for elementary students who affectionately refer to him as “the fruit man.”

        

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