In Memory

Bennett "Ferrell" Ellington - Class Of 1931

Bennett Ferrell Ellington

Dec 14, 1913 - Feb 24, 1951


When Bennett Ferrell Ellington was born on 14 December 1913, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, his father, John James Ellington, was 24 and his mother, Vivian Kirvin Prestridge, was 21. He married Dorothy Turner on 19 May 1945, in Maricopa, Pinal, Arizona, United States. He immigrated to Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1946 and lived in Claremont, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935 and Princeton Township, Somerset, New Jersey, British Colonial America in 1940. He registered for military service in 1938. He died on 24 February 1951, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 37.