In her 102 years, Sally Lepis has been known for helping her family, friends and neighbors. So when the old lady couldn't 1 to replace her decades-old hearing aids (助听器) and it became increasingly difficult to 2 , a local non-profit was happy to give a 3 . Last month, Lepis was presented (赠予) with hearing aids, worth about $7, 500, through Senior Dreams Come True, a non-profit program 4 by a law firm.
"Mrs. Lepis has 5 so much of herself over the years to friends, family and those 6 in her community, " said Jennifer Cona, a managing partner at the law firm. Lepis has long been the 7 that's kept her family together, her niece, Olivia Schmidt, 73, said. When Schmidt was a teenager, her mother, Lepis' twin sister, died at age
42. Lepis 8 jumped in and raised Schmidt in her Westbury home.
"It's 9 that she has done so much for so many people and thinks 10 of it, " said Schmidt, who 11 to recommend her aunt for Senior Dreams Come True over the summer.
In July, Schmidt and her cousins wrote letters to the non-profit, 12 Lepis for her lifetime of 13 deeds. Later that month, Lepis learned she would 14 new hearing aids, replacing the ones she had used for the past 25 years, and it is 15 that Lepis will again be a lively presence at her family's Thanksgiving dinner.
