Homer Edward Rogers,1865-1944

ROGERS, MCGRAW

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 5/7/2011 at 13:52:19

Rogers, Homer Edward –
Homer Edward, the youngest son of Mary Jane and Robert Rogers, was born in Linn County Iowa on December 27, 1865 and passed away at his home in Gruver, Iowa on January 6, 1945 at the age of 70 years and 10 days.

His young manhood was spent at Ely, Iowa and on October 7, 1888 he was united in marriage to Anna M. McGraw. They established their home on a farm in southern Iowa where they lived until the spring of 1913 when they moved to Ryan Lake community, then to Ringgold, then to Dolliver and in February 1939 to the present home in Gruver.

Four children were born to this marriage. Floyd and Earl preceded their father in death. When a young man he became a member of the Methodist church in Lenox, Iowa. Later he transferred his membership to the Presbyterian church at Gruver.

He leaves to cherish his memory his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Pearle Beggs of Clearfield, Iowa and one son, Homer of Jackson, Minn.; six grandchildren – Mrs. Vivian Ewart, Pomona, Calif., Jack, now somewhere in the Pacific, Earl and Harold Rogers, Jackson, Minnesota, Donald and Leroy Beggs, Clearfield; two great grandsons, Kenny and Jerry Stewart, Pomona, Calif.; two great granddaughters, Carole Ann and Lois Arlene Beggs of Clearfield; one brother Chas. Of Creston, Iowa and many other relatives and friends.

He was always a kind and loving husband and father and thought of others first and will be remembers as one whose main interest in life was to lighten the burden of others
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, Thursday, January 18, 1945