Margaret V. Rogers 1911 - 2009

ROGERS, BOURKE, TENNISON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/9/2020 at 21:07:24

Sioux City Journal
23 January 2009

SIOUX CITY -- Margaret V. Rogers, 97, of Sioux City passed away Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, at Holy Spirit Retirement Home.

Services will be 10:45 a.m. Saturday at Holy Spirit Chapel, with the Rev. Dennis Meinen officiating. Graveside services will be 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln, Neb., with Monsignor Liam M. Barr officiating. Visitation will be 3 to 7 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m and a vigil service at 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Condolences may be sent online to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Margaret was born Aug. 7, 1911, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Harry and Nora (Bourke) Tennison. After taking a business course in high school, she graduated at the age of 16. She worked for Lumberman Credit for 13 years.

She was united in marriage to Edwin "Ed" Rogers on March 2, 1934. They moved to Lincoln, Neb., in 1952 and she remained there until 2005. She then moved to Sioux City to be near family. After Ed died in 1967, she worked as a transcriptionist for a court reporter, the Lancaster County superintendent of schools and her favorite job, United Cerebral Palsy.

She loved to dance with Ed, sew, read, play her organ and tell stories. She made friends wherever she went. She had a quick wit and a wonderful sense of humor.

She is survived by a brother, Raymond Tennison of Chicago; a son and his wife, Larry and Ruth Rogers of Brookings, S.D. and their children, Betsy Rogers of Lincoln, Libby Harper of Arizona, and Maggie Rogers of Brookings; a daughter, Nona Hartz of Sioux City and her children, Matt and Wendy Stevenson and their infant daughter, Estelle of Iowa City, Iowa, Christy and Tom Everingham and their daughters, Hannah and Michaela of rural Westfield, Iowa, and Sara and Bradley Britton and their children, Parker and Julia of Akron, Iowa; and a son, Steve Rogers of Lincoln and his son, Andrew of New Orleans, La.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ed; her parents; and a brother, Harry Tennison.