At 102, longtime worker didn’t think he’d outlive the mill

FRANKLIN

George Steinbach started working at the paper mill outside Franklin in 1937, even before it began making paper. He never expected it would stop in his lifetime.

But two weeks ago the machines shut down. International Paper will phase out employment at the mill and officially close it in June.

Steinbach retired in 1973, long before International Paper bought the mill in 1999 and in January, he turned 102, making him perhaps the oldest living former employee. He even remembers when the mill produced only brown paper.

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