Reba Williams , a 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn’t graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma.

The News Journal in Mansfield  says that the Mount Vernon superintendent presented Reba Williams with the diploma Wednesday at her apartment  last week in Columbus.

She even got to wear a traditional graduation cap brought by the retired Mount Vernon English teacher who urged the school board to award the diploma.

Reba Williams aged 106 gets High school Diploma

Williams has said she completed high school in Mount Vernon  in the year 1925 but was denied her diploma because she refused to read a final book assigned by a teacher. She’d read the book once and didn’t want to read it again.

Williams  had finished all 12 the  grades .
By UP