I Am Born

March 11, 1945, 10:00 a.m., Union Hospital, Terre Haute, Indiana, (Edna) Paulene Boyll Winters gives birth to me, bundle of joy #2 in the family. I was expected to be a girl, so it took a little time to settle on my name:

Roger - for my uncle, Roger Austin Winters of Terre Haute, my father's brother.

Lee - for my grandmother, Dema Lealta (Denton) Boyll of Terre Haute, my mother's mother

I would be called "Roger Lee" by family members forever, to distinguish me from my uncle. 

NOTE: During the hospital visit to give birth to me, my mother learned there was a tumor in her left knee. After it was later determined to be cancerous and aggressively malignant, the doctors determined that amputation of her leg was necessary to stop it. That attempt failed and she died on March 26, 1947 after a long and very painful illness. She was 27.