Sol Stevens, a five year resident of Century Village, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 19. He was 95.

He had a long run. Born in Brooklyn on June 4, 1919, he decided at the age of 90 to relinquish his prized rent-controlled New York apartment for sunshine, palm trees, and year round outdoor activities. He found the computer and art clubs of Century Village of special interest, but often dozed during the lectures. His close friends, Barbara Singer and Roberta Nazimovitz were his companions and tour guides to the cultural offerings of Century Village and beyond, and helped him navigate when his eyesight worsened.

The son of immigrants, Sam and Tillie Stevens, Sol helped his father manage
a shoe repair shop in Brooklyn. He studied Engineering and all his life, made “Rube Goldberg” –type inventions. In his youth, Sol was an intrepid traveler,
who enjoyed camping in St John and rafting down the Colorado River with his niece, Joanna Baymiller. He had various entrepreneurial interests, including real estate management, and was a life long learner at Brooklyn College. Relatives have compared ” Uncle Sol” to the fictional character Walter Mitty who believed the fantasies he created about what he was going to do clean up his papers, what activities he was going to take up buy a new computer where he was going to travel apple picking in the Catskills just around the next bend, right after he finished the never- ending paperwork he was always sorting, filing, and stashing in cubbies and boxes all over his apartment. He was a character.
His at-home caregivers, Dess and Valerie, were with him constantly in his final days. Ms Baymiller, of Guilford, Ct., survives him, along with his nephew Ira Slotkin of Denver, Colorado.