Theodore Erwin Satterfield

Theodore Erwin Satterfield was born 07 September 1893 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana to Norwood and Eva Satterfield. They were families of the Plantation gentry of Louisiana. He was raised and educated in that vernacular. His heritage was rich. By 1910 he was an Engineer for a gas company. Theo lived with his parents in Cameron County, Texas.

He fell for Cecile Steinfeldt and they were married 4 November 1914. They had three children together, two sons and a daughter.

When the United States entered the war in 1917 Theo enlisted in the Army. He was promoted from Corporal to Sergeant First Class in Section "H" of the Flying School Detachment at Ellington Field, Texas a part of the air service. This was in December of 1918.

After the war he went to work as a service advisor for the Ford Motor Company and lived with Cecile and his children in Houston, Texas. He traveled out of the country for the company. In 1919 he applied for a passport to go to Mexico and other places. (1,2). Cecile traveled with him on some of the trips.

Somewhere along the way he was exposed to tuberculosis, because he became very ill in 1922 dying on 12 November 1922 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana at the Touro Infirmary.

He left this world much to soon, never really knowing his children. He left my wife to raise and nurture them. He knew that his parents and hers would help her, but......

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