Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey
Born (1908-04-05)April 5, 1908
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died November 4, 2006(2006-11-04) (aged 98)
Fresno, California, U.S.
Education Smith College
Known for co-author, Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes
Spouse(s) Charles Everett Carey
Parent(s) Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
Relatives Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., brother

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth, Mrs. Carey[1] (April 5, 1908 November 4, 2006) was an American author.

Life and career

Born in New York City,[1] Ernestine Gilbreth was the daughter of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior. She grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, with 11 siblings.

Gilbreth Carey and one of her younger brothers, Frank Gilbreth, Jr., chronicled the upbringing of the 12 Gilbreth children in their successful, comic memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (1948), which was adapted as an eponymous 1950 film). The pair followed up with a successful sequel, Belles on Their Toes (1950), which was adapted as an eponymous 1952 film.

Elizabeth graduated from Smith College, and worked as a department store buyer and manager for 14 years. In 1930, she married Charles Everett ("Chick") Carey, Sr., with whom she had two children, Lillian Carey Barley (b. 1938) and Charles Everett Carey, Jr., (b. 1942).

She was the author of several other books, including Rings Around Us, an account of the events that happened from the night she met her future husband, "Chick" Carey, to the night the two watched their daughter dance the Charleston as a high school freshman. Carey resided in Reedley, California.

She died of natural causes in Fresno, California, aged 98, on November 4, 2006.[2]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Current Biography Yearbook, H.W. Wilson Company, 1950
  2. Leimbach, Dulcie (November 6, 2006). "Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, Author of Childhood Memoir, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-09. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, who, with a younger brother, wrote Cheaper by the Dozen, the account of their growing up in a family of 12 children that led to several movies of the same name, died on Saturday in Fresno, California. She was 98 and lived in Reedley, California. Her death was confirmed by her son, Charles E. Carey, Jr.

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