Take a walk with 90-year-old Claude Lewis around Warner Robins, and you'll see just how many lives he's touched.
He was Director of the Warner Robins Recreation Department for 28 years, and on Monday he called the State Court of Houston County to order for the last time, after being a bailiff for almost 30 years.
"Men and women make mistakes in their life and come through the courts," Lewis says. "I liked seeing how the courts try to help them."
But Lewis says, the Recreation Department was his calling.
"Being the Recreation Director is the most delightful thing I've ever done in my whole life," Lewis says. "I always felt like the Lord wanted me to be a Recreation Director."
After 60 years serving Warner Robins and Houston County, Lewis says, his years working were well-spent.
"Seeing teenagers turn completely around, from being wild and woolly, to being beautiful and sweet," Lewis says.
While he was changing lives at the Recreation Center, he was also changing the world of sports. Lewis is known as the father of tee-ball. He's been credited with inventing the sport in 1957.
"I didn't patent it, so I didn't make any money out of it," Lewis says. "But I had the first tee-ball game in the whole world."
Mr. Claude Lewis may be retiring, but his mark has already been left on this city.
"Life should be vibrant, exciting, and alive, and Warner Robins has been that kind of city," Lewis says.
Mr. Claude Lewis was inducted into the Warner Robins Hall of Fame in 2013.