Camden's Daisy Riley credits healthy living and her faith.
Daisy Riley, of Camden, celebrated her 100th birthday last week. She is the queen of her block on Haddon Avenue and a history maker as one of the first Black female employees at Campbell Soup Co. She regularly attends First Nazarene Baptist Church where she will be honored on Sunday.. employee who helped break racial barriers at the company’s flagship plant in downtown Camden, Daisy Riley began celebrating her 100th birthday last week in grand style in her Parkside neighborhood.
Wearing a rhinestone-studded tiara and a sash, Riley was heralded on the stoop of her rowhouse on Haddon Avenue with a convoy led by a Camden fire truck, sirens blaring. Riley, known by nearly everyone in the neighborhood as “the Queen,” smiled and waved as motorists honked their horns. Passersby shouted greetings.“She’s a blessing, a nice lady,” said Aleta Goodwater, 58, a school crossing guard walking by on her way to her post.
“It was really rough. They treated me terribly,” Riley said. “Those white girls didn’t want me there.” “We were the Campbell’s kids,” joked her daughter, Alicia Riley, 63, a Camden teacher. Her mother never remarried after she divorced.
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