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Long Island's Oldest Resident to Celebrate 112th Birthday
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Long Island's oldest resident will soon celebrate her 112th birthday.
The party for super-centenarian, Fannie Greenberg, will take place on Wednesday, May 24, at The Regency at Glen Cove where she has resided for the past 9 years.
A super-centenarian is defined as someone age 110 or more. According to the Gerontology Research Group, there are 83 validated living super-centenarians in the world today.
Not only is Fannie Long Island's oldest resident, she is second oldest in New York state, the 13th oldest American and the 28th oldest person in the world.
Here's how folks at The Regency at Glen Cove describe her: She is an energetic senior that makes the most of every day. An extremely stylish woman, Fannie pays careful attention to every detail of her dress. After all, it doesn't hurt to look good!
With a jaunty hat perched on her head and a stylish scarf color coordinated to her suit, Fanny epitomizes the good life of Long Island's Gold Coast.
Fannie's Bio:
Born Fannie Adler in Ottawa, Canada on May 24, 1895, the world was a far different place than the one we know today.
The oldest of five, Fannie left school after completing 8th grade to help her father in his general store. She later moved on to other jobs, including one in a fancy boutique that catered to the upper echelons of Canadian society. "I rode my trusty bicycle to work every day, where I helped cloth the Ladies and Lords in the most fashionable finery of the times," she proudly recalls.
Always a trendsetter, Fannie relished her independence and hard-earned money and was loathe to get married and give it all up. Aaron Greenberg, an Austrian immigrant who was visiting from New York, fell madly in love with this pretty young woman with a mind of her own, and he set out to win her over.
Fannie's lovelorn suitor had to make three arduous trips from New York to Canada until he finally convinced her to accept his proposal of marriage. Fannie and Aaron were married on May 3, 1923 and settled in New York where Fannie became a devoted wife and mother.
Fannie threw her heart and soul into her family while Aaron made a living as a motion picture projectionist. They raised two daughters, the late Judith Square of Brooklyn and Claire Rivers of Great Neck. When asked what she attributed her mother's long life to, Claire stated, "I'm not sure, but she was very into cleanliness and personal hygiene way before it was in vogue -- and she never, ever ate out." Her baby brother 97, is her only surviving sibling.
Born before the advent of the automobile and airplane, Fannie says the technological advances in her lifetime that stand out the most are airplanes, escalators and space travel. "The idea of a man actually walking on the moon just fascinates me!"
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