Donald Triplett, who became the first person diagnosed with autism, died on Thursday at the age of 89. A Mississippi native, he worked at Bank of Forest for 65 years.
"Don was a remarkable individual," CEO Allen Breland told WLBT."And he kept things interesting."
"He was in his own world, but if you gave him two, three-digit numbers, he could multiply them faster than you could get the answer on a calculator," Breland explained.
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