Personal Life
Kenneth Ray Rogers was born in Houston, Texas, in 1938, the fourth of eight children born to Lucille (née Hester; d. 1991), a nurse's assistant, and Edward Floyd Rogers (d. 1975), a carpenter. Rogers graduated from Jefferson Davis High School in Houston.
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