Ancestry of Rock Hudson
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==Rock Hudson== | ==Rock Hudson== | ||
Rock Hudson was an American actor, born as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr on [[Nov 17]], 1925 in Winnetka, Cook County, [[Illinois]], the son of [[#Roy Harold Scherer|Roy Harold Scherer, Sr]] an auto mechanic, and his wife [[#Katherine Wood|Katherine "Kay" Wood]] (d. 1977), who had just married the year before. | Rock Hudson was an American actor, born as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr on [[Nov 17]], 1925 in Winnetka, Cook County, [[Illinois]], the son of [[#Roy Harold Scherer|Roy Harold Scherer, Sr]] an auto mechanic, and his wife [[#Katherine Wood|Katherine "Kay" Wood]] (d. 1977), who had just married the year before. | ||
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Roy Sr left the family in 1932 and went to California. After Roy left, Kay started dating Wally FitzGerald who worked shoveling coal at the Winnetka Water Works. Oppenheimer's book calls Wally a "tall, handsome, ex-Marine". Kay and Wally married and he adopted Roy who then became called Roy FitzGerald. Oppenheirmer states that Roy hated Wally from the age of nine, and tried to stay away from home as much as possible. (pg 6) | Roy Sr left the family in 1932 and went to California. After Roy left, Kay started dating Wally FitzGerald who worked shoveling coal at the Winnetka Water Works. Oppenheimer's book calls Wally a "tall, handsome, ex-Marine". Kay and Wally married and he adopted Roy who then became called Roy FitzGerald. Oppenheirmer states that Roy hated Wally from the age of nine, and tried to stay away from home as much as possible. (pg 6) | ||
