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...there? Dale told about it, sitting in her dressing room between film retakes for TV. "I joined the Baptist Church at the age of ten, but I gradually drifted away. I belonged to a family in Uvalde, Texas that never had anything to do with show business, but that was my goal. So I eloped at 14. Naturally, it was a failure, but I did get one wonderful thing out of it-my son Tom. And it was Tom who led me back to the church...
...Dale finally made it into the big time, singing with name bands on network shows, but she was never happy. In 1947 she married Widower Roy Rogers, an ex-bandsman himself, who had three children by his first wife...
...Dale and her son Tom, then 20, were sitting in Hollywood's Fountain Avenue Baptist Church. "Mother, how is your soul?" the boy suddenly whispered. Recalls Dale: "I said it was all right, but I knew it wasn't. I knew I was groping." "Why don't you give yourself to Christ?" said Tom. Dale went home and decided to do just that...
...Post." Today, both Dale and Roy are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which they joined when they moved to a ranch outside Hollywood. They say grace at meals, and at night they pray around a family altar (made of one of Dale's old dressing tables). Sometimes Dale squeezes in her morning prayers while driving to work in her Dodge. "Then I read my Bible while I'm having my hair done...
...religion, like her own, was strengthened in the heartbreak of their having a mentally defective child who died after two years-the subject of Dale's previous book...