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{{Infobox person
| name=Dale Evans Rogers<br>
(Actress, singer, songwriter)
| image=
| birth_name = Lucille Wood Smith
| birth_date=October 31, 1912
| birth_place=Uvalde, [[Texas]]
| death_date=February 7, 2001 (aged 88)
| death_place=Apple Valley<br>
San Bernardino County<br>
[[California]]<br>
Interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley
| spouse = (1) Thomas Frederick Fox (married 1927–1929, divorced)<br>
(2) August Wayne Johns<br />married (1929–1935, divorced)<br>
(3) R. Dale Butts (married 1937–1946; divorced)<br>
(4) [[Roy Rogers]] (married 1947-1998, his death)<br>
Nine children jointly<br>
One child together, Robin Elizabeth Rogers
}}
'''Dale Evans Rogers''' ( October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001), was an [[United States|American]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and songwriter. She was the third wife of [[singing cowboy]] [[Roy Rogers]].
The daughter of T. Hillman Smith and the former Bettie Sue Wood, Rogers was born ''Lucille Wood Smith''' in Uvalde, some eighty miles west of [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]],but her name was soon changed to '''Frances Octavia Smith'''. Long after she lived elsewhere, Evans Rogers visited her grandparents' family homestead in Uvalde. She recalled in 1996 that as a child she had slept on the since-removed back porch during hot summer nights and hearing nearby [[Mexican]] families singing in the dark. The property was placed on the real estate market in 2018, with an asking price is $149,500, but a buyer will need more money to bring the house up to standards. Or the property could be subdivided into eight lots that would sell for nearly $40,000 each. None of the original furnishings remain, and various owners altered the dwelling over the years.<ref name=rmarini>Richard A. Marini, "Uvalde fixer-upper once Dale Evans' home", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', April 27, 2018, pp. 1, A11.</ref>
She lived in Osceola in eastern [[Arkansas]] with a physician-uncle. At the age of fourteen, she eloped with and wed Thomas Frederick Fox, with whom she had one son, Thomas, Jr., a year after the marriage. After a year, Fox abandoned her, and she was a single mother in [[Memphis]] [[Tennessee]], soon singing jazz, big band, and swing and playing the piano on local radio.<ref>Elise Miller Davis, ''The Answer Is God'', [[New York City]]: McGraw-Hill, 1955, pp. 59-62.</ref> After the first divorce, she assumed the show business name '''Dale Evans'''. Soon two more failed marriages followed, but no children were born from those unions. During her time at [[20th Century Fox]], the studio cast her as a sister of her teenage "brother" Tommy, her son Tom Fox, Jr. Then the showgirl was cast as co-star to Roy Rogers in the making of thirty-five motion pictures at Republic Studios.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262661/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|title=Dale Evans Mini-bio|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>
From 1951 to 1957, Evans and Rogers appeared on [[NBC]]'s ''The Roy Rogers Show'', a family-oriented program in which Roy was a rancher and Dale operated a small restaurant.<ref name=rmarini/> Pat Brady appeared as Roy's sidekick in the series, which aired in reruns in the early 1960s on [[CBS[[. In their return to television in the fall of 1962, ''The Roger Rogers-Dale Evans Show'', a musical variety program with the Sons of the Pioneers, aired on [[ABC]] but was cancelled after thirteen episodes because of low ratings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055700/?ref_=_20|title=The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Show|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>
Evans and Rogers were prominent Hollywood [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republicans]] and outspoken [[Christian]]s, who sometimes appeared at [[Billy Graham]] crusades.<ref name=evansbio/> In 1964, Dale Evans Rogers spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally at the Shrine Auditorium in [[Los Angeles]]. Hosted by Anthony Eisley (1925-2003) of ABC's ''Hawaiian Eye'' series, the rally sought to persuade Congress to adopt [[school prayer]] in the wake of two decisions in 1962 and 1963 of the [[United States Supreme Court]] which struck down the practice as a violation of the [[Establishment Clause]] of the [[First Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref>Drew Pearson, ''The Washington Merry-Go-Round'', May 14, 1964.</ref>
Roy and Dale had only one child from their marriage, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of [[Down syndrome]] before her second birthday. Robin's life inspired Evans Rogers to write her bestseller ''Angel Unaware''. She then wrote other inspirational books calling upon people to seek [[God]] for answers to their travails.<ref name=evansbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.royrogers.com/dale_evans_bio.html|title=Dale Evans Biography|publisher=The Roy Rogers – Dale Evans Museum|accessdate=February 2, 2008}}</ref>
An Evans and Rogers museum operated in Victorville, near Apple Valley, California, until it was moved in 2003 to the resort city of [[Branson]], [[Missouri]]. The museum was located inside the Happy Trails Theatre at 3950 Green Mountain Drive, but was closed permanently in 2009, and the contents were sold at auction. Roy Rogers had told his son, Dale's stepson, Roy "Dusty", Jr., to sell the museum if it ever failed to turn a profit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.branson.com/legend-of-roy-rogers-and-dale-evans-transcends-a-museum/|title=Legend of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans transcends a museum|publisher=Branson.com|author=Gary Groman|date=December 11, 2009|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Dale Evans}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Tennessee]]
[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Actresses]]
[[Category:Singers]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Christians]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
| name=Dale Evans Rogers<br>
(Actress, singer, songwriter)
| image=
| birth_name = Lucille Wood Smith
| birth_date=October 31, 1912
| birth_place=Uvalde, [[Texas]]
| death_date=February 7, 2001 (aged 88)
| death_place=Apple Valley<br>
San Bernardino County<br>
[[California]]<br>
Interred at Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley
| spouse = (1) Thomas Frederick Fox (married 1927–1929, divorced)<br>
(2) August Wayne Johns<br />married (1929–1935, divorced)<br>
(3) R. Dale Butts (married 1937–1946; divorced)<br>
(4) [[Roy Rogers]] (married 1947-1998, his death)<br>
Nine children jointly<br>
One child together, Robin Elizabeth Rogers
}}
'''Dale Evans Rogers''' ( October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001), was an [[United States|American]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and songwriter. She was the third wife of [[singing cowboy]] [[Roy Rogers]].
The daughter of T. Hillman Smith and the former Bettie Sue Wood, Rogers was born ''Lucille Wood Smith''' in Uvalde, some eighty miles west of [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]],but her name was soon changed to '''Frances Octavia Smith'''. Long after she lived elsewhere, Evans Rogers visited her grandparents' family homestead in Uvalde. She recalled in 1996 that as a child she had slept on the since-removed back porch during hot summer nights and hearing nearby [[Mexican]] families singing in the dark. The property was placed on the real estate market in 2018, with an asking price is $149,500, but a buyer will need more money to bring the house up to standards. Or the property could be subdivided into eight lots that would sell for nearly $40,000 each. None of the original furnishings remain, and various owners altered the dwelling over the years.<ref name=rmarini>Richard A. Marini, "Uvalde fixer-upper once Dale Evans' home", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', April 27, 2018, pp. 1, A11.</ref>
She lived in Osceola in eastern [[Arkansas]] with a physician-uncle. At the age of fourteen, she eloped with and wed Thomas Frederick Fox, with whom she had one son, Thomas, Jr., a year after the marriage. After a year, Fox abandoned her, and she was a single mother in [[Memphis]] [[Tennessee]], soon singing jazz, big band, and swing and playing the piano on local radio.<ref>Elise Miller Davis, ''The Answer Is God'', [[New York City]]: McGraw-Hill, 1955, pp. 59-62.</ref> After the first divorce, she assumed the show business name '''Dale Evans'''. Soon two more failed marriages followed, but no children were born from those unions. During her time at [[20th Century Fox]], the studio cast her as a sister of her teenage "brother" Tommy, her son Tom Fox, Jr. Then the showgirl was cast as co-star to Roy Rogers in the making of thirty-five motion pictures at Republic Studios.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262661/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|title=Dale Evans Mini-bio|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>
From 1951 to 1957, Evans and Rogers appeared on [[NBC]]'s ''The Roy Rogers Show'', a family-oriented program in which Roy was a rancher and Dale operated a small restaurant.<ref name=rmarini/> Pat Brady appeared as Roy's sidekick in the series, which aired in reruns in the early 1960s on [[CBS[[. In their return to television in the fall of 1962, ''The Roger Rogers-Dale Evans Show'', a musical variety program with the Sons of the Pioneers, aired on [[ABC]] but was cancelled after thirteen episodes because of low ratings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055700/?ref_=_20|title=The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Show|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>
Evans and Rogers were prominent Hollywood [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republicans]] and outspoken [[Christian]]s, who sometimes appeared at [[Billy Graham]] crusades.<ref name=evansbio/> In 1964, Dale Evans Rogers spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally at the Shrine Auditorium in [[Los Angeles]]. Hosted by Anthony Eisley (1925-2003) of ABC's ''Hawaiian Eye'' series, the rally sought to persuade Congress to adopt [[school prayer]] in the wake of two decisions in 1962 and 1963 of the [[United States Supreme Court]] which struck down the practice as a violation of the [[Establishment Clause]] of the [[First Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref>Drew Pearson, ''The Washington Merry-Go-Round'', May 14, 1964.</ref>
Roy and Dale had only one child from their marriage, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of [[Down syndrome]] before her second birthday. Robin's life inspired Evans Rogers to write her bestseller ''Angel Unaware''. She then wrote other inspirational books calling upon people to seek [[God]] for answers to their travails.<ref name=evansbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.royrogers.com/dale_evans_bio.html|title=Dale Evans Biography|publisher=The Roy Rogers – Dale Evans Museum|accessdate=February 2, 2008}}</ref>
An Evans and Rogers museum operated in Victorville, near Apple Valley, California, until it was moved in 2003 to the resort city of [[Branson]], [[Missouri]]. The museum was located inside the Happy Trails Theatre at 3950 Green Mountain Drive, but was closed permanently in 2009, and the contents were sold at auction. Roy Rogers had told his son, Dale's stepson, Roy "Dusty", Jr., to sell the museum if it ever failed to turn a profit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.branson.com/legend-of-roy-rogers-and-dale-evans-transcends-a-museum/|title=Legend of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans transcends a museum|publisher=Branson.com|author=Gary Groman|date=December 11, 2009|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Dale Evans}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Tennessee]]
[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Actresses]]
[[Category:Singers]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Christians]]
[[Category:American Authors]]