Fifth Generation


1017. Alyce Golda Driggs was born on 14 August 1915 in Payson, Utah, Utah, USA. She lived in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah in 1920.95 She died Chronic broncial asthma on 21 August 1996 at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.96 Alyce has Ancestral File Number 4896-GT. S:PPU P143-12-4

She gained fame as one of the "Singing King Sisters" of radio and televi sion. Death announced in The Salt Lake Tribune dated Friday, August 23 , 1996: "LOS ANGELES - Alyce King Clarke of the big-band singing group th e King Sisters has died. She was 80. Clarke, also featured in the 1960 s ABC TV program "The King Family," died Wednesday in Los Angeles of chro nic bronchial asthma. Born in Payson, Utah, Clarke was the fourth of eig ht children of Pearl and William King Driggs. Her father, a voice teache r and classical musician, trained his children to play various instrument s and booked them for appearances around the West as "The Driggs Family o f Entertainers." Clarke and two others, Maxine and Louise, spun off int o "The Boswell Sisters" to increase the family income during the Depressi on. Later, Maxine retired, and Donna and Yvonne joined. With another si ster, Marilyn, and a friend, they billed themselves as "The Six King Sist ers." Eventually the group jelled into a quartet with Alyce, Donna, Loui se and Yvonne known simply as the King Sisters. They earned a Grammy fo r their recording of "Imagination." Clarke's rich alto was considered th e best voice in the family."

Alyce Golda Driggs and Sydney de Azevedo were married on 29 June 1941 in New York City, New York, New York, USA. Sydney de Azevedo was born on 24 March 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA. He died on 3 March 1953 at the age of 37 in Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergon, New Jersey, USA. S:PPU sp P143-12-4

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