LOS ANGELES – Arthur Winston, a longtime transit employee who received a citation from President Clinton for his decades of service, died in his sleep less than a month after retiring on his 100th birthday, his family said Friday.

Winston died Thursday evening.

For decades, he reported to work at the crack of drawn to supervise workers who cleaned and refueled the region’s bus fleet.

In 1924, Winston found work with the Pacific Electric Railway Co., a forerunner of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

He missed just one day of work in more than 70 years, and that was to attend his wife’s funeral in 1988. In 1996, he received an “Employee of the Century” citation from Clinton.