Roy Rogers Oddity

[HiDesertHal]

Look at Roy's face sometime...don't you notice that he has Oriental eyes?

His former home on Tomahawk Road is in a neighborhood adjacent to mine. He and Dale Evans are both interred in a beautiful crypt in a local cemetery.

Roy's real name was Leonard Slye, from Cincinnati, Ohio. When he became a contract actor for Republic Pictures, they changed his name to Roy Rogers, which was more saleable.

His son Dusty now manages the RR Estate.

Hal

 

[Ken N Tx]

From the internet:
In 1933, Rogers, still known as Leonard Slye, married Lucile Acolese, but the marriage didn't last. Back in the saddle, in 1936 Rogers married Arline Wilkins, who died after giving birth to their only son, Roy Jr., in 1946. The couple also had two daughters, Cheryl (adopted) and Linda Lou. Rogers married Dale Evans on New Year's Eve in 1947. Together they had a daughter, Robin—born with a heart defect and Down syndrome—who died just days before her second birthday in 1952. In the 1950s, Rogers and Evans adopted four more children, known familiarly as Dodie, Sandy, Marion Swift and Debbie Lee. The Rogers family was struck with tragedy when, in 1964, Debbie died in a church bus accident, and again, in 1965, when Sandy choked to death while serving in the Army.

A little more than six months after celebrating the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Evans, Rogers died in Victorville, California, on July 6, 1998, of congestive heart failure..