Ellen Louise Whiteis was the second child of Bert Gillott & Ellen Agnes Kirk Whiteis, was born at Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 17 November 1913. Among her earliest experiences to be remembered was the death of her Grandfather "Bill" - William Marion Whiteis. She says, "There was a large crowd. This was very impressive for a child at the age of four years." Her interest in music started when her parents provided her with four years of lessons at the piano. Her education was in the public schools of Tulsa. She graduated from Tulsa Central High School in 1932.
Ellen's working career started in New Mexico, 1933-1934, and continued in a law office in Tulsa, 1934-1942, until employment for thirty years at AMOCO. This company has ben variously known as Stanolind Oil and Gas; Pan American Oil Company - a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana. She retired from AMOCO in 1973 and, since then, has enrolled in seminars and formal classes in music and oil painting. She has been very active in the production of excellent still-life and landscapes. Her travels has been in Europe, the West Coast and East Coast of the United States and, including several trips to Mexico.
At the age of 21, her height was five feet, 3-3/2" and her weight was 120 pounds. Her eyes were gray-green and her hair was a wavy chestnut brown. Ellen never married.
Ellen's working career started in New Mexico, 1933-1934, and continued in a law office in Tulsa, 1934-1942, until employment for thirty years at AMOCO. This company has ben variously known as Stanolind Oil and Gas; Pan American Oil Company - a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana. She retired from AMOCO in 1973 and, since then, has enrolled in seminars and formal classes in music and oil painting. She has been very active in the production of excellent still-life and landscapes. Her travels has been in Europe, the West Coast and East Coast of the United States and, including several trips to Mexico.
At the age of 21, her height was five feet, 3-3/2" and her weight was 120 pounds. Her eyes were gray-green and her hair was a wavy chestnut brown. Ellen never married.
Ellen Louise Whiteis was the second child of Bert Gillott & Ellen Agnes Kirk Whiteis, was born at Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 17 November 1913. Among her earliest experiences to be remembered was the death of her Grandfather "Bill" - William Marion Whiteis. She says, "There was a large crowd. This was very impressive for a child at the age of four years." Her interest in music started when her parents provided her with four years of lessons at the piano. Her education was in the public schools of Tulsa. She graduated from Tulsa Central High School in 1932.
Ellen's working career started in New Mexico, 1933-1934, and continued in a law office in Tulsa, 1934-1942, until employment for thirty years at AMOCO. This company has ben variously known as Stanolind Oil and Gas; Pan American Oil Company - a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana. She retired from AMOCO in 1973 and, since then, has enrolled in seminars and formal classes in music and oil painting. She has been very active in the production of excellent still-life and landscapes. Her travels has been in Europe, the West Coast and East Coast of the United States and, including several trips to Mexico.
At the age of 21, her height was five feet, 3-3/2" and her weight was 120 pounds. Her eyes were gray-green and her hair was a wavy chestnut brown. Ellen never married.
Ellen's working career started in New Mexico, 1933-1934, and continued in a law office in Tulsa, 1934-1942, until employment for thirty years at AMOCO. This company has ben variously known as Stanolind Oil and Gas; Pan American Oil Company - a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana. She retired from AMOCO in 1973 and, since then, has enrolled in seminars and formal classes in music and oil painting. She has been very active in the production of excellent still-life and landscapes. Her travels has been in Europe, the West Coast and East Coast of the United States and, including several trips to Mexico.
At the age of 21, her height was five feet, 3-3/2" and her weight was 120 pounds. Her eyes were gray-green and her hair was a wavy chestnut brown. Ellen never married.
