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What to do when you work with someone who doesn't like you

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I have had a lot of jobs. And in some jobs, I've made really good friends and I'll even go visit them in the nursing home when it comes to that. But there are some people I've worked with I just couldn't stand. When I tell other people--in other words GOSSIP about it--I usually preface it with "I'm sure it's something about me that can't figure out them." But that's a lie. It's about them and something that I notice about unethical behavior or they were just plain mean or lazy. I shared an office with a woman who had worked for the organization for about 100 years. She didn't like me because I replaced a man who had retired from the organization after working there for 150 years. She liked the guy because the guy told her how wonderful she was to work with all the time. So, since I wasn't THAT guy, she decided to handle it by REFUSING TO TALK TO ME, EVER. She was capable of talking because she had family members who visited he