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Norman Eugene Rogers 1920-2003

KOLSTEAD, ROGERS, FERRIS

Posted By: Lori Clark
Date: 7/18/2003 at 11:18:20

Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service
Iowa City – 319-338-1132

Iowa City Press Citizen – Paid & picture
The Gazette – Paid & picture

Iowa City Dateline

Norman E. Rogers, age 82, formerly of Iowa City died Sunday, July 6, 2003, at a hospital in Nampa, Idaho.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Iowa City. Burial with military honors will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City. Visitation will be from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m. Monday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. Online condolences may be sent for Norman’s family through our website @gayandciha.com.

Norman Eugene Rogers was born October 2, 1920 in Iowa City, the son of Lloyd Thomas and Ruth (Kolstead) Rogers. He graduated from Iowa City City High School, attended pre-med classes at the University of Iowa, and received his Doctor of Podiatry from the Chicago College of Chiropody. During WWII, he served as an aviation machinist mate stationed in the South Pacific, in the United States Navy. He married Martha Olevia Ferris June 7, 1942, in Glendale, CA. Norman worked at a Pediatric Nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals, and later for over twenty years owned and operated Roger’s Shoe Service in Iowa City.

He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, having served a temple mission for the church with his wife, Martha in the late 1980’s at the Chicago, Illinois Temple. He was a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Norman enjoyed softball, playing euchre, and genealogy, volunteering many hours to the State Historical Society, and LDS Family History Library.

His family includes three daughters and their husbands, Rose and Nick Laub of Salt Lake City, Utah, Christine and Leon Sant of Kremmling, Colorado, and Linda and Kerry Stubbs of Salt lake City, Utah; three sons and their wives, Thomas L. and Joyce Rogers of Iowa City, Jerry E. and Carol Rogers of Tipton, Iowa, and David M. and Lani Rogers of Nampa, Idaho; twenty-one grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers, John Rogers of Ft. Collins, Colorado, and a sister, Barbara Seering of Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Martha; son, Richard; granddaughter, Alesha; and four brothers, Robert, Jerry, Kenneth, and Everett Keith Rogers.

Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service is caring for Norman’s family and his services.


 

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