WORCESTER, Mass. - Gordon Hargrove has touched thousands of lives in Worcester since he started with the Friendly House as a youth leader in 1957.

Hargrove has been the director at Friendly House since 1965 and he recently announced he's retiring. Hargrove has spent 65 years helping people and making Worcester a better place for thousands of families and individuals. 

The Friendly House helps people with drug and alcohol addiction, with homelessness, with food insecurity, with day care for children, with after school programs for children and with countless sports teams and leagues so city kids have a team to play on and somewhere to go. And all of that only scratches the surface of the spectrum of Hargrove's impact.

Hargrove's retirement leaves a big shoes to fill. He was a friend to all and never judgmental. For Hargrove, it was always 'What can I do?' and 'How can I help?' 

Our Kevin Shea caught up with Hargrove recently. Check out the video above.