[4] Following her mother's death when Blake was 3 years old, she went to live with an uncle and aunt,[2] William Bojorques and Gertrude Biddle-Bojorques in Petaluma, California.

This helped her to secure several other Western acting roles, many times as the lead heroine.

Toward the end of her career, she mostly played parts in Western genre films and television episodes, such as The Range Rider.

[8] Her second marriage, in 1943, was to actor, television producer and writer Mike Stokey; it ended in divorce in 1948.

Their son served as a 1st Marine Division combat correspondent during the Vietnam War, and who then began working in the film industry as a military technical advisor, having worked with, among others, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

[1] Blake died of natural causes in a Las Vegas, Nevada care facility in 2009, at age 94.