Personal Life
Royster married Frances Claypoole in 1937, and the couple had two daughters, Francis and Eleanor. He died on July 22, 1996, in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the age of 82.
He is a cousin, through the Roysters, of Kay Kyser, a popular bandleader in the 1930s and 1940s.
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