Rose Coyle Explained

Rose Coyle
Birth Date:July 30, 1914
Death Place:Brookhaven, Pennsylvania
Term:Miss America 1936
Predecessor:Henrietta Leaver
Successor:Bette Cooper
Spouse:
  • Robert Dingler
Children:1

Rose Veronica Coyle (July 30, 1914 – February 24, 1988) was Miss America 1936.

Early life

Coyle was the eldest child born to John Joseph Coyle, Jr. and Isabel (née Trainer) Coyle.

Pageantry

Coyle was the first to receive an encore in the talent completion at a Miss America pageant; she sang "I Can't Escape from You," and she performed an eight-minute long tap dance.[1]

Personal life

In 1938, Coyle married Leonard Schlessinger, the National General Manager of the Warner Bros. Theatres and had one daughter, Diane.[2]

Widowed, she married executive Robert Dingler and lived a quiet life until her death in 1988.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.philadelphia/81.239.1.1.2.2.1/mb.ashx
  2. Web site: Miss America History 1936 . 2006-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060923035834/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1930/1936.asp . 2006-09-23.
  3. Web site: Miss America : 1936 . www.missamerica.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080605002148/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1930/1936.aspx . 2008-06-05.