This Just In From Seattle Music History!!! HERE IS EXCERPT OUT OF HISTORYLINK.org Website Which Is Known As A Free Online Encyclopedia Of Washington State History! A Family of Entertainers! The Hendrix family first arrived in the Pacific Northwest during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. Nora (nee Moore) Rose Hendrix (1883-1984) was a dancer with Lacy’s Band and their traveling vaudeville troupe whose “The Great Dixieland Spectacle” show was featured at the expo’s Dixieland pavilion. Her husband, Bertran Philander Ross Hendrix (1866-1934), was a stagehand/roadie for the organization. Family legend tells that after the exposition concluded in October 1909, the troupe was stranded without future bookings and disbanded.By 1912 the couple had settled into Vancouver, B.C., and the following year brought them their first child, Leon Marshall Hendrix. Subsequent years brought additional offspring including James Allen Hendrix (1919-2002), who developed a love of competitive dancing by the 1930s. It was while attending a Fats Waller dance one night that Al, as he was called, met the pretty 16-year-old from the mining town of Roslyn, Washington -- Lucille Jeter (1925-1958) -- who would become his wife in 1942. Months later, on November 27, 1942, she bore their first child, Johnny Allen Hendrix, at Seattle’s King County Hospital -- today’s Harborview Medical Center (325 9th Avenue).
This Next Story Is Of Another Hendrix, Mr. Jimi's Real Sister Ira Hendrix! Now Albeit Her Story May At First Seem Very Sad & I AM Not Trying To Take Away From That, but at the same time here resiliency & strength makes her quite The Rock Star Herself! Here's What I Know About Ira Hendrix! -----> While researching the Seattle P-I’s Hendrix file – one that former employees said was depleted of photos several years ago – an interesting article about his younger sister stands out.
Kathy Ira Hendrix was 1 pound 10 ounces when she was born at what’s how Harborview Medical Center. In Dec. 1950, P-I reporter Fergus Hoffman wrote about the hospital staff that helped save her. (Ira was her middle name.)
Her survival in 1950 was quite the news, with officials from the hospital and the University of Washington
School of Medicine discussing her case. A scientific paper about her care was written by Seattle Dr. Russell R. de Alvarez.
“The mother, Mrs. Lucille Hendrix, 24, will take Ira home when she reaches 6 pounds,” Hoffman wrote. “It will be a wistful day for Nurse Donna Mae Linburgh, supervisor, and Mrs. Ira Gordon, who have had the task of keeping Ira in the world.
“Mrs. Hendrix named the child after Mrs. Gordon.”
“Jimi turned eight that fall, and the Hendrix family added another child: Kathy Ira, born sixteen weeks premature, and weighing just one pound ten ounces at birth. Worse yet, the family soon discovered that she was blind. For a time Kathy lived with the rest of the household, but eleven months after her birth, she was made a ward of the state and put into foster care. Al [Jimi’s father] also denied paternity of Kathy, although she, like [Jimi’s brother] Joe before her, bore a remarkable resemblance to him.”
Kathy Ira Hendrix is still alive. she was living in a state facility for the blind as she had nearly all her life.
“Though she carried the name Hendrix, “she wanted nothing to do with the family that had abandoned her when she was an infant, born blind.”
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