Does anyone know anything about Al Jolson Jr aka Peter Lowe?

Question

I think he was married to my grandmother, Dorothy Smith

Answer 1

Peter A Lowe and  Dorothy E Lowe were divorced in Feb. 1968 in Orange, California according to the California Divorce Index on ancestry.com  They had married in 1965.

The Social Security Death Index shows that a Peter Albert Lowe  was born 18 Mar 1935 and died: 25 Oct 2007,

Al Jolson Jr. was adopted by Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler. (They divorced and Ruby Keeler married 4 more times. Al Jolson was married 4 times.)

"In 1935 (6 May 1935), Al Jolson and his third wife, Ruby Keeler, adopted a baby boy. This seven week old boy, of Jewish and Irish extraction, was named Al Jolson, Jr., although Al called him "Sonny Boy," and Ruby shortened that into "Sonny." According to Jolson biographers, Al Jr. seemed more attracted to Ruby than Al, as many children seem to prefer one parent over another. After divorcing Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler married John Lowe, and at age 14 Sonny Boy became Albert Peter Lowe.  Albert Peter Lowe passed away at age 72, in November, 2007."

Source:  http://www.jolson.org/ (to see photos od Al Jolson Jr., click on "Al Jolson - The Man" and once there scroll down 3 to "Sonny Boy" and click.)

Name: Al JOLSON

Nickname: Jolie

AKA: Asa Yoelson (Birth name)

Father:  Rabbi Moshe Reuben Yoelson (died: 1945)

Mother: Etta Cantor (died: 1895 - in childbirth)

Birth: 26 MAY 1886 in Stednik,Lithuania

Death: 23 OCT 1950 in San Francisco,California of heart attack

Burial: Culver City,California

Name: Ruby KEELER

Given Name: Ruby

Surname: Keeler

AKA: Ethel Hilda Keeler (Birth name)

Birth: 25 AUG 1910 in Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada

Death: 28 FEB 1993 in Rancho Mirage,California of cancer