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Ellla was about 15 when her mother died in 1932 (Ella was born in 1917).
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Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
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.
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Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
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Ella Fitzgeralds early years were hard years as she came from a black family, that had many children it was a tough life for many blacks those years. She grew up in the city of Newport.
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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.