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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.
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
Yes she has a half-sister name Frances Da Silva.
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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.
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
Yes she has a half-sister name Frances Da Silva.
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.
She had 12 brothers and sisters