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After splitting with Gardner, Rooney married Betty Jane Rase, Miss Birmingham of 1944, whom he had met during military training in Alabama.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2014

Drafted into the Army in 1944, Mr. Rooney met Betty Jane Rase, an Alabama beauty queen, at a party.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2014

"It was an opportunity that we just couldn't pass up," says Ryan Rase, Mooresville's executive director of public services and operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2011

Private Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we shall not happen to meete at cape Rase, then the place of Rendez vous to be at cape Briton, or the neerest harbour vnto the Westward of cape Briton.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard