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Lela Brown was recently honored at a retirement celebration hosted for her by Dr. Keith Dressler, a local orthodontist for whom she had been a lab technician for 13 years. Ms. Brown, who is 77 years old, has worked for a Chattanooga orthodontist since the age of 17. The honoree, center, was joined at the event by Dr. Dressler, right, and Dr. Deene Leventhal, an orthodontist for whom Ms. Brown worked for more than 30 years.
