Oldest Maple Pointe resident turns 107

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Maple Pointe’s oldest resident is still going strong.

Sylvia Davis celebrated her 107th birthday in style at the assisted living facility on March 20, receiving a proclamation from the village and a citation from the Town of Hempstead while being surrounded by other community leaders, friends and family.

Davis is the oldest resident in the Chelsea Senior Living family of 16 senior residences in three states.

“I’ll be older next year,” she said. “I think for that age I look and act pretty good.”

Helping Davis celebrate her big day was her daughter, Maxine Diamond, and her husband Joe, great grandsons Noah Diamond and Michael Bernstein and granddaughter Ellen Quilter. Rockville Centre Mayor Francis X. Murray, Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D'Esposito, Assemblyman Brian Curran and State Senator Todd Kaminsky were also in attendance.

"We are so grateful to the staff at Maple Pointe for bringing happiness to my mother over the past several years," said Maxine Diamond.

Davis was born in 1910 in Manhattan to Gussie and Max Krieger. She married at age 17 and had three daughters — Arlene, Lorraine and Maxine — but divorced when their youngest daughter was just six years old.

She raised her three children by herself in the Bronx and worked as a bookkeeper for the First Rapids Furniture Company.

Davis has eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren overall.