Born in
Memphis, Tennessee, she married Hubert Afton "Buck" Ferrell (1919–1998), in 1940 and had four children. In 1957 the family moved to
Dallas, Texas, where Ferrell worked as a legal secretary, for more than thirty years, at a law firm and at the office of the
Governor of Texas in Austin. Her assassination database was originally written on over 40,000 cards and included details of over 8,200 people involved in the case. These data were eventually entered into a computer. Ferrell also created a four-volume set of chronologies, covering all aspects of the assassination. She was interviewed for the program
JFK: The Day the Dream Died, aired by
WFAA-TV in 1983. Ferrell died, 20 February 2004, at age 81, in Dallas. == Foundation ==