Howard E. ROGERS

ROGERS, BACON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:42

October 27, 1936 --- September 17, 2003

CLARION, Iowa - Howard E. Rogers, 66, died Sept. 17, 2003, at Sandia Vista Hospice Care, Albuquerque, N.M., of pancreatic cancer. He has since been cremated and his ashes are to be spread over Superstition Mountain.

Howard was born Oct. 27, 1936, in Clarion, Iowa. He was a resident of Tularosa, N.M., at the time of his death. He was a very well- educated person He took several electronic courses while in high school. He graduated from Davenport High School in 1957 and went on to join the U.S. Navy Howard constructed and maintained digital computer systems. During his 10 years in the Navy he became familiar with various types of VHF receivers, transmitters, indicators and controls, as well as radio direction finders, receivers, antennas and instruments.

Howard also worked with radar altimeters, receiver-transmitters and associated indicators and instruments, in addition to IFF transponders, coders and decoders. Additionally, Howard knew various types of search radar systems (R/T Ant., stabilization networks and display systems), electronic counter measure equipment, M.A.D. equipment and many different types of test and precision measuring equipment.

After his time in the Navy, Howard went on to work for Motorola in Phoenix, Ariz., where he did top secret government work. He built huge computers and worked on the Neutron bomb. He worked at Motorola for 20 years before retiring and moving to New Mexico. Howard loved building model airplanes in his spare time. He also had a love of motorcycles.

While stationed in Memphis, Tenn., he occasionally rode motorcycles with Elvis Presley He loved to tinker with motorcycles and old cars. His other hobbies included radio controlled air crafts, boats and cars; physics, chemistry, astronomy, history, metaphysics, photography and archery

Survivors include his mother, Bernice Rogers, Davenport; brother and sister-in-law, Harry and Fay Rogers, Cheyenne, Wyo.; sister and brother-in-law, David and Deanna Bacon, Aledo, Ill.; brothers and sisters-in-law, Roy and Jackie Rogers and Richard and Rita Rogers, all of Davenport. He was preceded in death by his wife and his father. Cards may be sent to the Rogers family, co Deanna Bacon, 905 NE 7th Ave., Aledo, Ill.

Quad-City Times --- Davenport, Iowa
23 November 2003