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Mrs Frances Ada. Romshe. Driver. Mrs. Driver was the mother of famed comedienne Phyllis Diller. Her parents were John McClintock (1851-1916) and Frances (McLees) Sellers (1847-1928). On October 28, 1908 she married Perry Marcus Driver. Their daughter, Phyllis, was born July 17, 1917.
Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio on July 17, 1917, the only child of Perry Marcus Driver, an insurance agent, and Frances Ada (née Romshe). She had German and Irish ancestry (the surname "Driver" had been changed from "Treiber" several generations earlier).
Jun 8, 2022 · Auglaize, Ohio, United States. Death: January 26, 1949 (68) 26 Jan 1949, Alameda, California, United States. Place of Burial: Lima, Allen County, Ohio, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of John McClintock Romshe and Frances Romshe McLees. Wife of Perry Marcus Driver.
- January 12, 1881
- Lima, Allen County, Ohio, United States
- Auglaize, Ohio, United States
She was born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917 in Lima, Ohio to Perry Marcus and Frances Ada (Romshe) Driver. A student at Lima's Central High School, she went on to study for three years at the Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago, before transferring to Bluffton (Ohio) College where she served as the editor of the school's more humorous ...
- July 17, 1917
- August 20, 2012
Frances Ada Romshe, Frances Ada Romshe Driver. Description. Frances Ada Driver was the mother of Phyllis Diller. Birth. Jan 12 1881. Death. Jan 26 1949. Nationality. United States of America.
Original name, Phyllis Ada Driver; born July 17, 1917, in Lima, OH; daughter of Perry Marcus and Frances Ada (maiden name, Romshe) Driver; married Sherwood Anderson Diller, November 4, 1939 (divorced, September 1965); married Warde Donovan (an actor), October 7, 1965 (divorced, July 1975); companion of Robert Hastings (an attorney), c. 1985 ...
When Phyllis Ada Driver was born on 17 July 1917, in Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States, her father, Perry Marcus Driver, was 55 and her mother, Frances Ada Romshe, was 36. She married Sherwood Anderson Diller on 9 November 1939, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters.
