Accompanied by her family and friends Miola Donahue Laws, 103, a native Houstonian, looks at friends and family drive by to wish her a happy birthday during a car parade at her 103 birthday party at the Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, in Houston.Vernitta Lenor could always rely on one congregant to remind her she was beautiful every Sunday at Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church.
“She made me feel beautiful and that I wasn’t ugly and I wasn’t different,” said Lenor, through tears. “It built my self-esteem to a level it probably would have never been where it is today without her words of wisdom and kindness in my ear.” In a show of love for Donahue Laws, dozens of people flocked Saturday to Pilgrim Rest to celebrate the milestone of her Aug. 24 birthday. The great-great-grandmother was honored with a performance from the Jack Yates High School Band, her alma mater, and a car parade of people whose lives she touched. And she received a congressional proclamation from U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s office making Aug. 27 “Miola D. Laws Day.
Their other children also found success, including Johnny Laws, a veteran and vocalist; Debra Laws, a vocalist and Broadway actor; Blanche Laws-McConnell, a former church minister of music and general manager of Angelus Funeral Home in Los Angeles; and Dr. Donna Y. Laws, a professor, author, inspirational speaker and classical dancer.
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