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[1] Dovey Estelle Caro married on 28 May 1938 in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA to Thomas "Tom" Ellett Eggleston. [2] She passed away on 01 May 2002 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA and was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA. [3]
- Female
- August 25, 1911
- Thomas Ellett Eggleston
- May 1, 2002
May 1, 2002 · Mother of Estelle Eggleston, who is better known by her stage name of Stella Stevens. Her birth name was Dovey Estelle Caro and she went by Estelle. ~~~~~~~ Estelle Eggleston of Memphis passed away May 1, 2002, in Los Angeles, California. She was 90 years old.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53531768/dovey-estelle-eggleston. A native of Marks, Mississippi, Estelle Caro was born 25 August 1911 and died 1 May 2002 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The 1930 census shows eighteen year-old Estelle worked as a cashier at a theater.
- Mississippi
- August 25, 1911
- Thomas Ellett Eggleston
- May 1, 2002
Ancestors. Daughter of Thomas Ellett Eggleston and Dovey Estelle (Caro) Eggleston. Wife of Noble Herman Stephens — married 1 Dec 1954 (to 10 Jul 1956) in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States. [children unknown] Died 17 Feb 2023 at age 84 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
- Female
- October 1, 1938
- Noble Herman Stephens
- February 17, 2023
Born Estelle Eggleston on October 1, 1938, in Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA, Stevens is the only child of insurance salesman Thomas Ellett Eggleston and nurse Dovey Estelle (née Caro). When she was four years old, she relocated to Memphis, Tennessee with her family.
Who’s Who in America, which misspells Stevens’s birthplace as Pazoo City, identifies her parents as Thomas Ellett Eggleston and the former Divey Estelle Caro. 4 Ms. Stevens, however, informs me that her mother’s maiden name was Dovey Estelle Caro.5 Tom and Estelle Eggleston’s only child left Mississippi with her parents when she was four and mov...
Stella Stevens was born Estelle Caro Eggleston on Oct. 1, 1938, the only child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston and his wife, Dovey Estelle Caro. Sources frequently cited her birthplace as Hot Coffee, MS, but the moniker was simply a nickname for the town of Meridian, which lay near the Mississippi-Alabama border.
