Victoria Cecelia Pierscinski Johnston
Victoria Cecelia Pierscinski Johnston “Centenarian Mother of Seven” July 16, 1920 - September 24, 2020 Born in San Francisco to Polish Immigrants, a first generation American, Victoria grew up in San Francisco then moved to farms and the coast of California as a child. Her father was the lighthouse keeper at Yerba Buena Island and Palos Verdes. Thriving in the 20’s despite the poverty of the great depression, she proudly enrolled at U.C. Davis as a home economics major just before the US entered World War II. There she met the love of her life when “this handsome 2nd Lieutenant f...