Woman, 90, gets diploma

A 90-YEAR-OLD suburban US woman who dropped out of school to help her family during the Great Depression now has her high school diploma.

Eleanor Benz left Chicago Public Schools’ Lake View High in 1936 during her senior year to take a job.

Over the decades she moved to Gurnee and had 15 children, 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.

Ms Benz had told one of her daughters that never completing high school was one of her greatest disappointments.