Her large family and friends mark the day
Friends and family traveled from near and far last Sunday to celebrate the 106th birthday of Elide Charles, a long-time Dorchester resident who arrived in the neighborhood with her Haitian family in 1969.
Born on Dec. 1, 1919, in Jacmel, Charles is the sole survivor of three siblings. She married Pierre Eliménes Charles in Jacmel, and raised his two boys, Eddie and Jersainte, as her stepsons before the family moved to Port-au-Prince and she and Pierre had three daughters – Florence, Danielle, and Chantal…