95-year-old returns library book 74 years overdue

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California woman is proving it's never too late to make things right.

Ninety-five-year-old Hazel Severson of Sacramento says a friend found a book that Severson's late husband had borrowed from an Amador County library in 1936 while sorting through things for a garage sale.

knew what she had to do: return the book and offer to pay the overdue fee — a whopping $2,701.

Severson told the Sacramento Bee that she and her husband Howard were newlyweds back when he checked out the hardback, "Seaplane Solo," about Sir Francis Chichester's 1930 solo flight across the Tasman Sea.

Luckily for Severson, the library didn't charge her the fee, though it did accept a small donation when she stopped by on Oct. 13.

Librarian Laura Einstadter says it was just happy to get back the book.

NICE!!!

I think I'd've kept the thing at that point though.

It was either a really good book and they couldn't let it go or a really bad book and they wanted to spare the rest of the community.

I'm suprised the library is even still there. Anyone go to the Public Library any more?

Yeah Shock It's where poor people go to use the internet.