Grace Arline Wilkins (1914–1946) • FamilySearch

Grace Arline Wilkins

Brief Life History of Grace Arline

When Grace Arline Wilkins was born on 14 December 1914, in Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, United States, her father, Prentice Davidson Wilkins, was 35 and her mother, Lucy Elizabeth Cross, was 28. She married Roy Rogers on 14 June 1936, in Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years. She died on 3 November 1946, in San Fernando, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Roy Rogers
1911–1998
Grace Arline Wilkins
1914–1946
Marriage: 14 June 1936
Marion McGinnis Fleming
1940–2021

Sources (19)

  • Grace A Slye in household of Leonard F Slye, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Grace Arlene Rogers, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Grace Arlene Rogers, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

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World Events (8)

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1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English (West Midlands and southern England): variant of Wilkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

North German and Dutch: variant of Wilkens .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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