I interviewed Billie a few weeks before her 100th birthday. She was the most wonderful person, completely and utterly nonplussed about her record and utterly modest. To her the whole year just seemed the obvious thing to do. She kept almost no records of her year so I made her an album of clippings and pictures from my research. Got a lovely phone call from her a few days later then she passed.
She ended her days in a lovely retirement home in Devon, she had a second floor apartment but insisted on seeing me out even though she needed a z-frame to get downstairs. Amazing lady, sadly missed and even more sadly almost forgotten.