Mabel Henderson only uses the bookmobile these days.

"I used to go to the main library once in a while, but, now I only drive where I have to," she says.

Mabel, who will be 97 this month, says she has come to the bookmobile ever since she moved to Topeka following retirement.

Mabel's youthful face and demure manner belie her age and her business-oriented past. A farm girl from the small  community of Corning, Kansas, Mabel attended the Strickler Business College in...