ABSTRACT
Love Lucy during the 1950's, Lucille Ball established herself as one of that medium's most popular comedic actresses.
Early Life Lucille Desiree Ball was born August 6, 1911, in the small town of Celoron, New York, a suburb of Jamestown. Her father, Henry Durrell Ball, was a telephone lineman for the Bell Company, while her mother, Desiree (DeDe) Hunt, was often described as a lively and energetic young woman. Henry Ball's job required frequent transfers, and within three years after her birth, Lucille had moved from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan. While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February, 1915.
