Updated: 4:49 PM EST January 30, 2021
SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. A South Carolina woman was celebrated with a parade on Saturday in honor of her 100th birthday.
Dr. Edna Louise Davis, recently 100, was celebrated with a drive-thru parade on Saturday from the Sumter First Baptist Church to her home in Sumter.
According to the information received from Minerva L. Paige, Dr. Davis was born on January 27, 1921 in Sumter and was the youngest of three.
She then moved to Tuskegee, Alabama where she lived on a government reservation and began school, according to Paige. She graduated from the Tuskegee Institute in 1937 as Valedictorian then went on to earn her Bachelor s Degree, membership into Pi Kappa Lambda National Honor Society in Music, and Master of Music Education degree at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. This followed credits earned at the Julliard School of Music. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University, according to Paige