Valley Voices: In memory of Mimi Rogers Swift, daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
By Marcy Taylor
Special to the Victorville Daily Press
On behalf of the countless people touched by the love and generosity of Mimi Rogers Swift, I pay humble tribute.
Born Marion Fleming in an air-raid shelter in Edinburgh, Scotland during World War II, the woman we know as Mimi spent her first 12 years in orphanages. She came to the United States in 1954 as a foster child of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Roy and Dale’s trip to the British Isles and the grand welcome they received were described in the January-February and March-April 1954 issues of Double R Bar Ranch News. When Mimi saw the issues at my home, she declared, Oh, that s the trip when they got me!
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