Not so much the painting but the info on the back of it

So obviously not a super great painting but the info on the back is intriuging but because there is a spot that had the original text for what this is scratched out it's left me at a stand still. I can' find anything on this woman, much less the claim written on here of Roy Rogers step sister. I suspect what it originally said was "painted for" in the scratched off text. Anyway I'd like a little help on finding out who this is and why they would have wrote Roy Rogers step sister..

 

No clue about that writing issue but that does resemble Mt. Baldy but I don't recall an upthrust like at the right nearby.
I used to camp near there on the Nevada side, up on the mountainside west of Carson Lake.
This is from the Cal side of Lake Tahoe.

 

It says like was from this particular spot "foot hills boulevard Pasadena .CA", maybe that's why it has that additional mountain maybe from this particular spot that' the view?

 

The last bit remaining of the scratched out part looks like a g to me, so words maybe not quite 'painted for', but something that adds up to the same thing.
The stepsister note was written in a much later hand, suspect by a girl/young woman; have not known any other group of people who dot their 'i's that way. (At least it's not a little heart.) Maybe the stepsister is who the writer acquired the painting from, a bit of additional provenance?

 

He didn't have a step sister. He was born Leonard Franklin Slye in 1911 in Ohio. He did have a sister Mary (a couple years older) who (with her husband) was the first of the family to move to California, but her married name wasn't Snoddy, nor was she 54 years old in 1928. Neither of his parents were old enough to have a child who would have been 54 in 1928.

I did find a Margaret V Snoddy (married name) living in Kern County, California in the 1930 census. Her age then was given as 53 (but we all know that people start to shave a few years off in middle age.) She was born in Missouri and was already in California in 1910.

 

Think Ms. Snoddy would have been an admiring fan rather than a relative. If 1928 were the year painted, it would have been more natural to put that info up with her name & age. As placed, I'm inclined to think it is the view of Mt. Baldy that dates to 1928. The stepsister bit & the 79 in a circle...?

 

That's exactly what I was thinking too. A fan that painted it for Roy and His wife. Maybe it was scratched off later to create a false provanence and they didn' research it thouroghly, or who knows maybe it was face down someone was on the phone and didn' have anything else to write on? Just the fact it says Roy Rogers Step sister is confusing since he didn' have one? Or maybe she was an in law? I didn' think to see if his wife had one or not..

 

Maybe RR SS was put there by a dealer who was given erroneous info, something that way? Put there in the honest belief that it had been in the hands of a SS, but just wrong? Other thought is that divorce was socially unacceptable until relatively recently, that there was a divorce & remarriage & SS, but this was kept out of official bios?

 

According to Wiki Roy Rogers didn't marry his first wife until 1933, when he was 21.

 

I saw that too, I didn' even know he was married to anyone else

 

Well Mt. Baldy, as far as I recall, was far from Pasadena. It’s the background mountain in Virginia City on Bonanza and countless other western shows.

 

King you might have the wrong Mount
Mount Baldy is located in the San Gabriel mountains in Southern CA

 

Ooooops....
A mountainous mistake.

 

Beat me to it, I actually went onto Google maps and did street view from what looks like the area amazing how much things change though obviously not the exact spot but somewhat of a match