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Article: ROY ROGERS RIDES INTO SUNSET AT 86 SINGING, STRAIGHT-SHOOTING STAR OF RADIO, MOVIES AND TELEVISION FAMOUS AS `TRUE WESTERN HERO'.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1998
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Byline: Michael Fleeman Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Happy trails, Roy Rogers.
The singing cowboy and one of the last of the white hats from the golden era of Hollywood Westerns died Monday. He was 86.
Rogers died in his sleep of congestive heart failure at his Apple Valley home, in the high desert 90 miles from Los Angeles.
``What a blessing to have shared my life together with him for almost 51 years,'' said Dale Evans, his wife and singing partner.
Rogers was a star of television, radio and movies, turning out country music songs, 87 film Westerns - 26 of them with Miss Evans - and a 1950s TV series that continues in ...