1963 October 1st Paige Young marries Mark Frederick Segal in Las Vegas, per impossible to read ledger records easily found on ancestry.com. The record shows only the date and names. It was likely and elopement in one of those 24-hour Las Vegas wedding chapels. Paige’s mother Donna eloped for a Vegas wedding to marry her 2nd husband, Jack Holroyd, in 1958. An old friend…
Family Background In Vaudeville: Census records, military records and local directories show that Joseph Ned LaRocca (Diana/Paige’s grandfather) was born in 1894 in Peoria, Illinois and grew up there. Known as “Ned,” Joseph Ned LaRocca was a harpist in a family of several brothers and one sister named Kathryn. His father was Salvatore LaRocca, a harpist from Italy who settled in Chicago before raising…
Diana Cotterell/Paige Young’s parents: Robert M. Cotterell, was 23 and Donna V. LaRocca, 19, when they were married in 1940. (Donna is listed in the 1940 census as living with her parents at 3834 Evans St., and that she was a “New Worker” in “Dramatics.”) Below is the Hollywood Wedding Chapel where Robert and Donna were married per the marriage certificate. The location is…
The woman who most of us recognize as Paige Young, the Playboy Magazine Playmate of November 1968, was born Diana Lee Cotterell on March 16, 1944, at the Griffith Park Maternity Home, located at 1933 Griffith Park Boulevard. Her home residence is listed as 3834 Evans St, a short distance of .8 miles from the birthing center. Diana’s older sister Constance Susan Cotterell was…