Ada Folke

Ada Folke was only ten years older than Lucile Mead (b.1893) so when Ada worked as a live-in nursemaid for the Meads in 1900 she may have seemed more like a seventeen-year-old big sister to Lucile.  By 1903 Ada had become a telephone operator and lived elsewhere but she and Lucille were still close.

Ada Folke had emigrated to America from Sweden in 1891 with her parents, Carl J. Folke (1857-) and the late Kristina Folke.  Like her younger brother, Carl Folke Jr. (1884-1922), who left school at fifteen to work as an office boy, Ada left school early and became a domestic servant, later getting a job as a telephone operator.  Carl Folke Jr. lived with his father and Annie Odell Folke (1861-) whom their father had married in 1884 after the death of their mother.  A Swedish immigrant who came to America in 1892, Carl Folke's hard work had paid off.  He owned his home on Carroll Street in Berwyn and was a valued clerk at a dry goods store there.  He and Annie had a five-year-old daughter, Edna.

Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998
Name Ada E Folke
Sex Female
Age 21
Address 14 E Madison 1st Ward
Death Date 30 Dec 1903
Death Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Birth Year (Estimated) 1882
Marital Status Single
Occupation Telephone Operator
Race White
Informant's Name John E Traeger
Event Type Death
Entry Number 29441
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