Flora Call Born

Flora Call, Walt’s Mother, is Born

Long before Flora was a character in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, the name had special meaning to the Disney family. After all, Flora was the name of Walt Disney’s mother. Flora Call was born in Steuben, Ohio, and on New Year’s Day 1888, she married Elias Disney. Together they had five children: Herbert Arthur, Raymond Arnold, Roy Oliver, Walter Elias, and Ruth Flora.