She died when Ella was a teenager in a car accident.
In a car accident
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
to become a singer
Xavier Wilkins
She married Ben Kornegay
Ray Brown Jr.
she look up and said yes
In a car accident
1932
It is never mentioned in either the book or the movie how Ella of Frell's mother dies.
piano lessons, public school music system, and high school music courses
Ella Fitzgerald was born to unmarried parents, and before she was a year old her father William Fitzgerald, a wagon driver, left the family. When Ella was 15 her mother Temperence "Tempie" Williams died in 1932 in a car crash, and soon afterwards Ella moved out of her stepfather's home.
My name is Ella. I do, in fact, have a mother. Thank you for asking.