Rose Thompson Hovick

[4][5] Later in their careers, the two daughters adopted their more famous stage names: Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc.

Rose's drive to create a performing career for her daughters eventually led to the end of her marriage to Jack Hovick, who disagreed with her intentions for the girls.

Rose married her second husband, Judson Brenneman, a traveling salesman on May 26, 1916 at the Unitarian church in Seattle, Washington, with Reverend J.D.A.

[6] Many years later, Rose ran both a farm in Highland Mills, New York and a boardinghouse, some of whose tenants were lesbians, in a 10-room apartment on the seedy West End Avenue in Manhattan.

After the young woman's mother demanded an investigation, a case was opened, but a jury declined to indict.

[2] Karen Abbott's biography of Gypsy Rose Lee refers to two other violent incidents from Thompson Hovick's life.

Stage revivals have starred Tyne Daly, Angela Lansbury, Linda Lavin, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley, Leslie Uggams, Imelda Staunton, and Audra McDonald.

Ellen June, Rose Louise (Gypsy), and mother Rose Hovick 1925 passport photo