Roy Rogers

Born: November 5, 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio
Died: July 6, 1998 (age 86), Apple Valley, California

Roy Rogers (Leonard Franklin Slye) was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957.

What do you know about Roy Rogers?  Try this quick quiz.

1. Rogers was born to Andrew ("Andy") and Mattie (Womack) Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his family lived in a tenement building on 2nd Street. (Riverfront Stadium was constructed at this location in 1970 and Rogers would later joke were he was born. Where does Roy claimed to have be born at?

2. After completing the eighth grade, Rogers attended high school at McDermott, Ohio. When he was seventeen his family returned to Cincinnati, where his father began work at a shoe factory. Rogers soon decided on the necessity to help his family financially, so he quit high school, joined his father at the shoe factory, and began attending night school. After being ridiculed for falling asleep in class, however, he quit school and never returned.

• True or False?

3. After four years of little success, he formed a western cowboy music group, in 1934. The group hit it big with songs like "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". Who was the group?

4. What is the 1938 western he stars as Roy Rogers?

5. Roy remarried in 1936 to Grace Arline Wilkins. In 1941 the couple adopted a girl, Cheryl Darlene. In 1942, they legally changed their names to Roy and Grace Arline Rogers. The following year, Arline bore a daughter, Linda Lou. A son, Roy Jr. ("Dusty"), followed in 1946. Arline died. What was the cause of her death?

6. Roy and Dale Evans married on New Years Eve in 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma. What film had they filmed there?

7. What was the 1952 Bob Hope film the Roy was one of the co-stars?

8. What was the cause of Roy death on July 6, 1998?

9. Where is Roy Rogers buried?

Roy Rogers Answers

• 1. Riverfront Stadium's 2nd base
• 2. True
• 3. Sons of the Pioneers
• 4. Under Western Stars
• 5. She died from complications from the birth a few days after Dusty's birth.
• 6. Home In Oklahoma.
• 7. Son of Paleface
• 8. Rogers died of congestive heart failure on July 6, 1998. He was residing in Apple Valley, California at the time of his death.
• 9. Sunset Hills Cemetery, Apple Valley, California

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