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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

In this sad strait I wandered out alone one evening, and without knowing it reached the "Rase M�hle," near Oltdorf.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James