Thurman Washington celebrates second retirement
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Special to the Outlook
Ingram Accounting & Consulting, LLC recently celebrated the retirement of its office manager Lurea Thurman Washington.
Thurman Washington worked at the firm for eight-and-a half years before retiring on Sept. 2. The celebration, held at Mom’s and Dad’s Italian Restaurant, culminated with well wishes from friends, clients, co-workers, and celebrities Anthony Anderson and Cedric the Entertainer.
A Tallahassee native, Washington is a military veteran, and is now one of the few people to have achieved two retirements by age 60. She enrolled in the U.S. Army at age 17, serving 10 years in the field of communications with deployments in Korea and Germany. She then took her knowledge of diverse cultures, foreign languages, and effective communications to work in public service in her home state, first with the Department of Insurance and later with the Florida Senate.
After 27 years in state government, Washington retired from the Senate, and soon became a part of the Ingram Accounting family, where she was affectionately known as “Ms. Simmons.”
“That turned out to be the absolute best job one can have,” said Thurman Washington.
Her work with the firm cemented relationships with clients, including the Capital Outlook, and was instrumental in the firm twice being named “Business of Year” by the newspaper.
