The World War II U.S. Army veteran is a happy, familiar fixture, always greeting and waving to everyone walking to school or in vehicles passing by or as he says, “Zooming through the intersection on West Florida Street.”
Walkers to school began dwindling since the pandemic. For the past several years, Faucette’s attentive wife, retired teacher Elizabeth brings him to his morning and afternoon shifts.
A Greensboro native, in the 1980s, he retired from the U.S. Postal Service and took up a second career as a crossing guard for Greensboro City Schools in 1986.
Faucette says it was his wife’s idea. She was a teacher at Peck, which meant they could spend time together.