Who is Tess? Tess Curtis White is also famously known as Tess Curtis or Tess Christine White. Her maiden name was Cachikis. She was the mother to a famous American actress and comedian, Betty White. Betty in the early years was a pioneer in television for over seven decades. Tess Curtis White’s daughter, Betty has been one of the most popular personalities in the entertainment world due to her wide and long contribution to the television industry.
Family of Tess White
Tess Curtis White was born on the 25th of July in the year 1899, in the city of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States. She was an American national who was married to Horace Logan White. She was a homemaker and Horace Logan White served as an executive in the electrical industry. If you have a look into their family tree, the name of Tess’s father was Nicholas Cachikis. He originally was a native to Greece and Tess’s mother, Margaret Curtis Hobbs Cachikis originally belonged to England. Thomas was Tess’s brother who was also born in Illinois in the year 1907.
Tess Curtis White’s daughter, Betty White was born on the 17th of January in the year 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois. Tess was ten years old when she used to live with her brother Thomas and her parents. Tess’s father was in the ice cream industry and he worked there as a wagon driver.
As per the marriage records of Cook County, Illinois, Horace White and Tess Curtis White got married to each other on 17th of February in the year 1921. They used to live in the Oak Park, Illinois where Betty was born. Later, in 1925 the family moved to Pasadena, and they were listed to be living in California as residents. In the year 1938, their family moved to Beverly Hills, California. At the age of forty, Tess was recorded or registered to be still married to Horace.
What did Tess Curtis White’s daughter do?
Horace, being a sales representative in the electrical industry, was known to be earning over five thousand US dollars per year. At that time Betty did not go to school nor did she work anywhere else or got married. Betty became most famous among others in the entertainment industry. One of Betty’s first jobs was to work at the radio station where she used to read commercials apart from doing odd jobs like playing noises of a crowd and playing tunes. She used to make around 5 US dollars per show.
Betty would go to any extent to participate in singing shows irrespective of not getting paid or for a minimum wage. Later, Betty got a chance to appear on famous shows like the Great Gildersleeve, This is Your FBI and Blondie. After appearing on these shows, Betty found a chance to have her own radio show that was called “The Betty White Show”.
Later, in the year 1949, the daughter of Tess Curtis White, Betty started appearing with AI Jarvis as a co-host for a famous live television show in Hollywood which back then was known as ‘Make Believe Ballroom’, and later on, it was known as ‘KLAC-TV’ (nowadays it is known as KCOP-TV) in Los Angeles, California.
In the 1960s, Betty White became a staple of the network gaming shows. Apart from this, she also worked with other talk shows that included the famous Jack Paar. She also worked with Johnny Carson’s famous ‘The Tonight Show’. Betty was a celebrity guest on the hit show ‘Password’ that aired from 1961 to 1975. Tess white’s daughter gained extraordinary success through the advertisement of the famous snack that is known as ‘Snickers’.
There was a campaign on Facebook in 2010, where Betty White was considered to host SNL (‘Please’). This was one of the largest groups where five hundred thousand members were confirmed to be present while NBC confirmed that Betty White would be cast as a host for the popular show ‘Saturday Night Live’.
When did Tess Curtis White die?
On the 11th of November in the year 1985, Tess Curtis White, 86 years old took her last breath. She was buried in a memorial park named Forest Lawn situated in Los Angeles County, California.
