In 1986, on The Phil Donahue Show, Rogers told the audience that he was the first person in his family "as far back as we know" to graduate from high school. He later attended the University of Houston. He served as a busboy at the Rice Hotel and swept floors at a hat store for $9 a week. In 1949, Rogers won a talent show at the Texan Theatre. Rogers attended Wharton Elementary School, George Washington Junior High School, and graduated from Jefferson Davis High School (now Northside High School) in 1956. Rogers was said to be of Irish and Native American ancestry. His parents were Lucille Lois Rogers (née Hester 1910–1993), a nurse's assistant, and Edward Floyd Rogers (1904–1975), a carpenter. Rogers was born the fourth of eight children on August 21, 1938, at St Joseph's Infirmary in Houston, Texas.
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