Her niece Dalia noted that Cela's given name was Tzviya, after her Fraternal grandafather Tzvi Segal, but she changed it (her 4 sisters all changed their given names, too). Cela was born in Petah-Tikvah shortly after the family's move in 1911 from Minneapolis Minnesota. The Maternal Granparents, Abraham and Hannah-Sarah Markus were already setteld in Rishon L'tzion.