106 years young: South LA woman celebrating big milestone this weekend
A family plans to celebrate a great-great-great grandmother s 106th birthday on Zoom this weekend.
LOS ANGELES - Happy early 106th birthday to Missouri Billingslea!
The South LA woman will celebrate this milestone on Saturday, February 6. Her granddaughter, Cynthia Billingslea, plans a zoom at 11 p.m. Friday to celebrate at midnight.
Missouri was born in 1915 in Mississippi. Her parents were sharecroppers. As a married woman, she moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s.
Cynthia was raised by her grandparents after her mother died when she was three years old. She says her father asked his parents if they would take in the little girl.