Résumé

Captain, US Army, Medical Service Corps, 1967.

Professional Activities

Recipient, Ford Foundation Fellowship Study, 1970. The Ford Foundation provided Chilless a grant to study low-cost housing solutions in three cities: New York, NY, Boston, MA, and Washington, DC.

High School / College

Graduate, Norman High School, Norman, OK, 1961. He was interested in painting at Norman High School, being a member of the Paint Daubers Club. (See Norman High School The Trail Yearbook, vol. 54, 1960, p. 56.)

B.S, Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, c. 1961-1966. Chilless belonged to the Society of Military Engineers while at the University of Oklahoma. (See University of Oklahoma Sooner Yearbook, 1963, p. 196.)

Relocation

Tedd F. Chilless was born in OK in 02/1943. Three years before his birth, Tedd's family resided in a house at 314 Hayes Street in Norman, OK. The family was not wealthy, but owned its own dwelling, worth about $1,000, less than some other houses in the immediate area. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma; Roll: m-t0627-03284; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 14-16A, accessed 03/20/2025.)

As a seven-year-old in 1950, he lived with his parents in a rural area near Norman, OK. The household consisted of Tedd's parents William C. Chilless and Lucile R. and their four of their five children. His older sibling William was not listed as living at home by the census. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma; Roll: 6140; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 14-40, accessed 03/19/2025.)

During the early 1960s, he attended the University of Oklahoma in that city, where he graduated in 1966.

In that same year, 1966, he relocated to Portland, OR. By 1967, he had joined the US Army, serving in a medical unit.

He and his wife Nancy had a residence in Seaside, OR, during the 1990s.

Parents

His father was William Carl Chilless (born 04/24/1908 in OK-d. 09/03/1987), who, the 1940 and 1950 US Censuses described as a house painter. His mother was Lucile A. Reynolds (born 03/10/1909 in Oklahaoma City, OK-d. 07/21/1982 in Norman, OK) They wed on 02/19/1926 in Cleveland County, OK. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022, accessed 03/19/2025.)

Siblings included William Chilless (born c. 1927 in OK), Joann N. Chilles (born c. 1933 in OK), Jerry B. Chilless (born c. 1936 in OK), and a fraternal twin, Fred C. Chilless (born 02/11/1943 in Norman, OK).

Spouse

He first wed Sandra Griffin, but they divorced on 07/01/1974 in Multnomah County, OR. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Oregon, U.S., Divorce Indexes, 1961-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015, accessed 03/20/2025.)

Chilless married Nancy E. Carbery (born 05/15/1950 in Centralia, WA) of Beaverton, OR, on 06/26/1981 in Cantralia, WA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013, accessed 03/20/2025.)

Biographical Notes

Chilless began to paint in 1996. He said of this experience: "As computers took over my architectural practice I experienced what I called 'graphite withdrawal.' It was a major change from drawing eight hours a day to moving only a mouse. I felt I need to express my artistic skills and began to paint in earnest." (See Ted Chilless Art.com, "Capturing the Subject Before Me." accessed 03/19/2025.)