Dale Lamar Roylance Collection

Dale Lamar Roylance was born October 18, 1927, to Thomas Lamar (T.L.) Roylance (father) and Virginia Blanche Myers (mother). Dale was nine years old when his father died, and he lived with his mother and later stepfather in Idaho and Orange, California. Dale graduated from Eden (Idaho) High School in May 1945. It appears that Dale assisted his mother with the operations of the family business (Greystone Hotel in Nampa).

T.L. Roylance was born on November 27, 1898, in Springville, Utah. He came to Idaho with his parents in 1917 to farm. T.L. married Virginia Blanche Myers on November 25, 1924, in Farmington, Utah. They later purchased a farm south of Eden where they lived until he died from pneumonia in 1938. He was a member of the Eden Latter Day Saints (LDS) Church) at the time of his death. T.L. had one brother, Grant Roylance, who had two sons (Norman and William).

Blanche Myers was born on May 29, 1902, in Pikeville, Tennessee, the daughter of Fred and Mary Myers. Blanche first married Merrill C. MacQuivey on October 24, 1921, in Burley, Idaho. They divorced in September 1924 due to “Merrill disregarding his marriage vows.” Soon thereafter Blanche was married T.L. Roylance from 1924-1938 and had one son, Dale. She continued to manage the farm for several years after T.L.’s death. Blanche married Robert Earl Loy in California in 1941 or 1943, where they relocated briefly until they moved back to Twin Falls by 1945. Blanche was in an automobile accident with her mother, Mary, who died shortly after. Blanche assisted with the operations of the family business (Myers Hotel and Myers Cafe) and later managed the Greystone Hotel in Nampa, Idaho. Blanche died in November 1988 while residing in Boise, Idaho.

Mary Lee Martin (Blanche’s mother) was born on February 12, 1880. Mary married Fred Myers (1872-1952) on February 16, 1899, in Tennessee. They moved to Idaho to farm and opened the Myers Hotel in Eden, Idaho, around 1910. Mary divorced Fred in January 1917 due to Fred “failing to provide the plaintiff and two children (Blanche and Bulah) with the common necessities of life because of his idleness” but continued to act as the hotel proprietor. Mary later married Arthur J. Henry (A.J.) on February 25, 1926, and continued to own and operate the Myers Hotel and Cafe until her death on November 21, 1945, from complications of an automobile accident on the Hansen Bridge with her daughter Blanche.

Other identified family members include Van Emmett Myers (1869-1952, brother of Fred Myers) who married Pocahontas (“Poka” or “Pokey”) Turner (1871-1952) and came to Idaho to homestead in 1916.