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Oct 31, 2023 · When Edna Louise Scottron was born on 31 October 1894, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, her father, Cyrus L. Scottron, was 27 and her mother, Louise Edith Ashton, was 25. She married Edwin Fletcher Horne Jr. on 17 November 1915, in Kings, New York, United States.
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- Edwin Fletcher Horne Jr., Miguel A. Rodriguez
Dec 23, 2022 · Birthplace: Illinois, United States. Death: between circa November 1976 and circa January 16, 1985 (73-98) Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of Cyrus L Scottron and Louise Ashton Scottron. Ex-wife of Edwin Fletcher Horne, Jr. Mother of Lena Horne.
- Illinois, United States
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Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actress with a Black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was from modern Senegal. Horne had a paternal great-grandmother who was a Blackfoot Indian. Horne was raised mainly by her paternal grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne.
Jul 7, 2023 · Horne's father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne, was a banker and professional gambler, while her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actor. From the moment Lena was born on June 30, 1917, it was clear that Teddy would become a transient figure in her life.
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Feb 17, 2022 · Edwin Fletcher “Teddy” Horne Jr. married Edna Louise Scottron on Nov. 17, 1915, in Brooklyn. On June 30, 1917, they were blessed with a baby girl they named Lena Mary Calhoun Horne. Sadly, the...
Jul 28, 2020 · After a failed attempt to make it big as an actress on her own, Edna Louise Scottron—Lena Horne’s mother—pushed her daughter to follow in her footsteps and suggested she find work at...
Nov 28, 2023 · Born in 1917, the daughter of Edwin Horne Jr., an entrepreneur and gambler, and Edna Louise Scottron, an actress in a Black theater troupe, Horne rose from the chorus of the storied Cotton Club in Harlem, which she joined at age 16, to become.
