Ancestry of Rock Hudson

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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)
  
Wally and Kay fought and he would beat her and Roy.  They divorced, Kay married him a second time, and they divorced again when Roy was fifteen.  Roy FitzGerald went to New Trier High School in Cook County, Illinois, graduating in 1944. Kay became a live-in housekeeper for a wealthy family.  For several years they lived above Walgreen's Drug Store.
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Wally and Kay fought and he would beat her and Roy.  They divorced, Kay married him a second time, and they divorced again when Roy was fifteen.  Roy FitzGerald went to New Trier High School in Cook County, Illinois, graduating in 1944. Kay became a live-in housekeeper for a wealthy family, and also a telephone operator.  For several years they lived above Walgreen's Drug Store.
  
In 1943 Rock enlisted in the U.S. Navy from which he was discharged in 1946.  He returned to Winnetka for a time, living with his mother, but in order to persue his dream of becoming an actor he decided to relocate to California.  For a short time he lived with his father who was then living with a wife and daughter in Long Beach, [[Los Angeles County, California]].
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Roy Sr had kept in touch with his first family, and when Roy was 16 he went to California to visit his father.  In 1943 Rock enlisted in the U.S. Navy from which he was discharged in 1946.  He returned to Winnetka for a time, living with his mother, but in order to persue his dream of becoming an actor he decided to relocate to California.  For a short time he lived with his father who was then living with a wife and daughter in Long Beach, [[Los Angeles County, California]].
  
 
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