Rogers, Jessie Prudence Runyan – 1883-1947

HINER, LOUPEE, ROGERS, RUNYAN

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/10/2016 at 15:50:12

Mrs. Tom Rogers, 63, Dies Today Of Heart Ailment
Mrs. Thomas Rogers, 63, died at 2 o’clock this morning at the Skiff Memorial hospital following lingering illness aggravated by a heart ailment.
Funeral services will be held from the Morgan Funeral Home, 2 p.m., Thursday with Rev. J. Wilfred Walker, pastor of the First Christian church officiating. Burial will be in the Metz cemetery.
Jessie Prudence Runyan, daughter, of Henry T. and Mary Charlotte Hiner Runyan, was born on a farm near Colfax, March 29, 1883, and died in Newton, March 11, 1947 just 18 days before her 64th birthday.
She was married April 9, 1902 to Thomas Rogers at Colfax, and to this union two children were born, a daughter, Mrs. Clyde R. Loupee of Oskaloosa, and a son, Harold Rogers of Yanta, Colo., both of whom with the husband survive. Other survivors are a grandson, Robert L. Rogers of Yanta, and a brother, Charles Runyan of Los Angeles, Calif., and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Rogers was a member of the First Christian church of Colfax and was for many years active in the Rebekah and Pocahontas lodges at Colfax.
Source: Newton Daily News; 11 March 1947