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Billie Jennings was born in 1926 on November 25, 1925 at St. Louis, [[Missouri]], a daughter of Ward Detrich Beaver (b. 1903 Cobden, Union, IL - d. 1988 St. Louis, MO) & Ruth Evelyn Baldwin Beaver (b. 1908 Pleasant Mound, Bond, IL - d. 1955 Buena Vista, Fayette, OH). She was saved at the age of 17, and subsequently was instrumental in leading her parents, siblings (and their children) to Christ.
In 1950, Billie lived in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, [[Oklahoma]] where she lived with, and babysat for a widowed student of Oklahoma Baptist University named Norma Jo Bratcher Henley-White (b. 1926 Byars, McClain, OK - d. 2017), daughter of Benjamin Franklin Bratcher (b. 1902 Walters, Cotton, OK - d. 1971 Shawnee, OK) & Mildred Mattie Cowger Bratcher (b. 1910 Maxwell, Pontotoc, OK - d. 1997 Shawnee, OK).