At 99, Margaret Bailey still walks her own path | Santa Rosa Press Gazette

At 99, Margaret Bailey still walks her own path | Santa Rosa Press Gazette

“The bus would pass by us, and we would be walking and (it would) just drive right by us,” Bailey said. “But through it all, we’ve made it.” Milton had a high school in those days. It just wasn’t for them. Bailey, who turned 99 this year, has spent nearly all of those years in the same patch of East Milton, in the family home she still keeps. The town she grew up in barred her from its closest classrooms, the bus that drove past, and eventually …