Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: baltimore , maryland - caption: henrietta lacks circa 1945 -- 1951 - birth name: loretta pleasant - height: 5 2 - death date: 4 october 1951 - spouse: david -rrb- lacks -lrb- 1941 -- 1951 ; her death - parents: eliza pleasant i -lrb- 1881 -- 1969 -rrb- -lrb- 1886 -- 1924 -rrb- and john randall - children: lawrence , jr. deborah lacks pullum zakariyya bari abdul rahman -lrb- lacks born joseph lacks -rrb- elsie lacks david '' sonny '' lacks - birth date: 1 august 1920 - name: henrietta lacks - image size: 200p - occupation: tobacco farmer - image: henrietta lacks _ -lrb- 1920-1951 -rrb- . jpg - birth place: roanoke , virginia - monuments: henrietta marker at clover , virginia lacks health and bioscience high school ; historical Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of henrietta lacks .
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henrietta lacks -lrb- august 1 , 1920 -- october 4 , 1951 -rrb- -lrb- sometimes erroneously called henrietta lakes , helen lane or helen larson -rrb- was an african-american woman who was the unwitting source of cells -lrb- from her cancerous tumor -rrb- which were cultured by george otto gey to create the first known human immortal cell line for medical research .this is now known as the hela cell line .