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Jan 26, 2023 · It turns out; Clarence was the son of Louis Armstrong’s cousin Flora. As Giddins’ account, posted below, points out, Louis began supporting Clarence when Louis was just 14. It became a lifelong pursuit, as Clarence was Louis’ only child.
May 8, 2013 · Clarence (Hatfield) Armstrong lived a full life, dying at age 83, on Oct. 15, 1998, and endures in Armstrong's memoir as the happy athletic boy everyone called, much to Louis's pleasure, "Little Louis Armstrong."
- David Lobosco
Nov 15, 1998 · Before Clarence's mother Flora died, she evidently anticipated Louis's involvement and renamed her son Clarence Armstrong. Louis Armstrong died in his beloved Queens, NY neighborhood home, in July 1971, just a month shy of his 70th birthday.
- August 8, 1915
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Clarence Armstrong was mentally disabled as a result of a head injury at an early age, and Armstrong spent the rest of his life taking care of him. His marriage to Parker ended when they separated in 1923.
Nov 17, 2021 · Even though he adopted his late cousin’s mentally disabled son, Clarence, when the boy was three, Armstrong was for 16 years supporting Preston-Folta and her mother, accepting Preston-Folta...
- Mildred Europa Taylor
Before Clarence's mother Flora died, she evidently anticipated Louis's involvement and renamed her son Clarence Armstrong. Louis Armstrong died in his beloved Queens, NY neighborhood home, in July 1971, just a month shy of his 70th birthday.
Aug 31, 2021 · We’ll open with family, a card from Louis’s adopted son, Clarence Hatfield Armstrong, and Clarence’s wife Evelyn: LAHM 1987_9_253-09. The man Louis and Lucille felt like was their son, Jack Bradley: LAHM 1987_9_245b. Bradley sent a flower arrangement to the viewing in the shape of a trumpet, along with this card: 1987_9_245b~002
