Ella was the daughter of Giovanni Rossi and Sarah Elizabeth Rossi (nee Hodgson) who had married in 1916. In 1939, shortly before war was declared, Miss Ella Rossi married Mr James John Eldon of Cleator Moor and they then lived at 38 Birks Road, Cleator Moor. In December 1940, James and Ella's son, John James Eldon was born.

James Eldon then went to work at a "North West factory on essential war work". According to her mother, Ella also wanted to 'do her bit' for the war effort and enlisted to the WAAF in March 1943. James and Ella's young son John was then being looked after by his maternal grandmother, Sarah Rossi.
Tragically, on Tuesday 2nd February 1944, James Eldon died of illness at Lancaster Royal Infirmary. His funeral service and interment took place at Cleator (St Mary's) RC church on Monday 7th February 1944 and was taken by Father Kevin McCann O.S.B.
On 11th April 1944, according to a 'Whitehaven News' report Ella died as the result of an accident while cycling at the airfield to which she was attached at Newark, Nottinghamshire. After release of wartime documents, the report into Ella's death states the collision was with a NAAFI lorry cycling on the Fosseway having left the airfield and heading towards Newark.
In April 1944, Ella's next of kin were therefore her parents, who were then residing at Queen Street, Whitehaven. Ella's funeral service was held at St Begh's RC church, Whitehaven on Saturday 15th April 1944 (11.00 am) followed by interment in the Roman Catholic section of Whitehaven Cemetery (Grave Ref. 6/L/687).
The epitaph on Ella's CWGC headstone reads as follows:
"In loving memory of our dear daughter.
Always remembered.
Jesus have mercy on her".