The city of Atlanta has many national treasures, including being the childhood home of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. However, one of its most inspirational offerings to the world is a 114-year-old woman named Nina Willis, who holds with her over a century of American history and is the “pride and joy” of her family.
At least, that is what her 97-year-old caretaker and sister Pecola Kirby says.
On the eve of her last birthday, which was Saturday, Jan. 14, Kirby told Atlanta News First that there was “Nothing I wouldn’t do for her. She is my pride and joy, so I intend to take care of her, if she don’t outlive me.”
The sisters are the last living siblings of a nuclear family of 22 (including their parents), and their images dot a wall of memories dating back to the 1800s of those who have gone on before them.
Fox 5 Atlanta suggests that Willis might be Georgia’s oldest resident, being born in 1909. Back then, she lived in Robinson,…
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