“She will tell you it’s by the grace of God,” her granddaughter, Ethel Harrison, 69, of Houston, told News .
“That’s how she survived so long. “She is extremely spiritual.”
A Texas woman celebrates her 114th birthday, attributing her long life to God: ‘JUST THE LORD KEEPING ME HERE’.
Elizabeth Francis was the second-oldest person in the United States until February 22, when the previous record holder, Edie Ceccarelli, 116, of Mendocino County, California, died.
According to the Gerontology Research Group (GRT), a global social science institute situated in Los Angeles, Francis is also the fourth-oldest living individual in the world.
Supercentenarians are people who have lived longer than 110 years. There are more than 97,000 centenarians in the United States, but significantly fewer supercentenarians, according to data from the World Economic Forum, a nonprofit research center based in Switzerland.
Francis lives at home with her 95-year-old daughter, Dorothy Williams.
