Dale Evans

Lucille Wood Smith, name changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith, famous as Dale Evans, (31 October, 1912 - 7 February, 2001) was a prolific writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife of singing cowboy

Lucille Wood Smith, name changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith, famous as Dale Evans, (31 October, 1912 - 7 February, 2001) was a prolific writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.

Born in Uvalde, Texas, Evans had a tumultuous early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas F. Fox at 14. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. at 15. Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August Wayne Johns that same year, a union that lasted until their divorce in 1933. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930s to promote her singing career. She then married her accompanist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1935.