A 103-year-old woman facing foreclosure from her home will not be forced to leave the dwelling she has lived in for the past 53 years.
The bank administering a second mortgage on the northwest Atlanta house where Vinia Hall lives will work out an arrangement so that she and her 83-year-old daughter, Kathelyn Cornelius, don’t have to move. The bank, JPMorgan Chase, announced the decision last Wednesday.
“We will work out a resolution to keep them in the home,” Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for the bank, said in an emailed statement.
“That’s a blessing,” Hall said.
The bank’s decision caps a series of telephone calls and negotiations that involved a former Atlanta City Council member, a state senator and the office of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
There were plans to evict the women last Tuesday, but the movers and Fulton County Sheriff’s deputies sent to the home did not remove them.
Hall, whose 104th birthday is three weeks away, told a local TV station that day that she was not worried about being kicked out of her Penelope Road home.
“No, I knew that they know what they were doing. God don’t let them do wrong,” she said.







