Frances Katherine Ellis

Female28 July 1920–March 2005

Brief Life History of Frances Katherine

When Frances Katherine Ellis was born on 28 July 1920, in Oregon, United States, her father, Guy Spaight Ellis, was 36 and her mother, Irma Hannah Miller, was 27. She married Curtis Orrin Kelley on 21 December 1942. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Cowlitz, Washington, United States in 1950. She died in March 2005, in Clark, Washington, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

Curtis Orrin Kelley
1918–1985
Frances Katherine Ellis
1920–2005
Marriage: 21 December 1942
Lisa Katherine Kelley
1947–2004

Sources (6)

  • Frances Kelley, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Frances Katherine Ellis - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Frances Katherine Ellis
  • Frances Kelley in entry for Clare Mae Ellis-Jackson-Miles, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    21 December 1942

    • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

    Age 3

    Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

    1940

    Age 20

    Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.

    1944 · The G.I Bill

    Age 24

    The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

    Name Meaning

    English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .

    English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .

    Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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