Sadie Alexander was born in Newark, NJ on September 13, 1913, the youngest of Polish immigrants Fradel and Eliezer Levy’s four children. In 1934 Sadie married Harry Alexander, a shoe worker. In the 1950s, they leased a candy store, and Sadie became the accountant, tax manager, and paramedic for their small business. She was also the instructor of her three children, and her household put her children in touch with a time when Jews in America still had a culture and an inner world of their own. Sadie moved to Seattle in 1999. Since 2007 she has resided at the Caroline Kline Galland Home, where she receives frequent visits from her Seattle family: Edward and wife Leah, her grandchildren Rebecca and David, and great-grandson Philip.
Sadie Alexander celebrates 100th birthday
