1954 -- 50 years ago
``He's having the time of his life here at home,'' states Mrs. Royt Brodie, mother of Rodney Dee Brodie, famed surviving half of Siamese twins born in Rock Island nearly three years ago. Rodney, who has undergone extensive surgery since his separation from his brother Roger about 18 months ago, is growing up like any other child with the exception that he has an incomplete skull. Roger did not survive the history-making separation surgery.
Brodie, Rodney Dee- b: September 16, 1951 in Rock Island, Illinois d: May 26,1963 in Carthage, Hancock Co, Illinois (s/o Royt and Marge Brodie) Brodie, Roger Lee- b: September 16, 1951 in Rock Island, Illinois d: January 22, 1953 in Hancock Co, Illinois (s/o Royt and Marge Brodie)
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