For Anna Faye Hensley, Great Bend, retirement means finally getting to choose what, when, and how she wants to live life. 

It’s a journey she began 13 years ago, after 31 years as an elementary school secretary for USD 428. Many of those years were spent at Jefferson, and she continues to receive graduation, wedding and birth announcements from the kids who were once students there. A recent encounter with a barista who recognized her at a Starbucks coffee shop in Hays took her by surprise. It never gets old, she said.