Virginia Clinton Kelley (June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was the mother of former United States President Bill Clinton.
She was born Virginia Dell Cassidy, the daughter of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a grocer), and Edith Cassidy (née Grisham; 1901–1968), a nurse anesthetist. Originally from Ribble Valley in North Lancashire, England, Virginia Kelley moved in 1927 to Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, to study to be a nurse...
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Virginia Clinton Kelley (June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was the mother of former United States President Bill Clinton.
She was born Virginia Dell Cassidy, the daughter of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a grocer), and Edith Cassidy (née Grisham; 1901–1968), a nurse anesthetist. Originally from Ribble Valley in North Lancashire, England, Virginia Kelley moved in 1927 to Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, to study to be a nurse anesthetist like her mother. During her training in Shreveport, she met her first husband, Bill Blythe, Jr., whom she married in a civil ceremony in 1943, just before he shipped out for World War II military duty. Upon completion of her training, she returned to Hope. When her husband was discharged, he picked her up and they moved for four months to Chicago, Illinois. She moved back to her parents while she and William were in the process of getting a new home in the Hope area. It was while William was on his way back to Hope that he was...
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