Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rogers, William F. July 28, 1919
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The Acorn, Three Oaks, Mich., August 7, 1919, page 1, col. 1-2
The Acorn, Three Oaks, Mich., August 7, 1919, page 1, col. 1-2

	William F. Rogers was born in Three Oaks Tounship[sic] May 6th, 1882, where he
has spent the greater part of his life.
	On December 25, 1912 he was married to Mary P. Jenkins of this place and to
them came little Alice, her Daddy's Chum, September 27, 1915. They made their
home on the farm just three miles south east of Three Oaks, were[sic] "Billy"
passed away July 28, 1919, after months of suffering.
	It is hard to find words that speak truly of "Billy". His cheerfulness filled
such a big place in the hearts of those who knew him that they alone will
realize how he will be missed.  No task however great was ever too big for
Billy.  His whole self was thrown into his work so deeply that other things were
forgotten until that task was complete. There was never clouds where he was for
his life was full of sunshine, and his smiling face and humerous[sic] remarks
always drove dull care away.
	No one can realize how much he suffered, and yet he never[sic] complained even
when it seemed almost impossible for him to endure the pain.  There was nothing
which seemed to grieve him so much as when he grew so weary that he could not
have his friends call.
	On can almost see his life portrayed in these lines:
"Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of Men go by.
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit on the scorner's seat, or hurl the cynic's ban.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to Man."

Those who are left to mourn his loss are Mary, his wife, and little daughter,
Alice, his mother and father Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rogers of this place, three
brothers, Clifford, Howard and Jessie, and two sisters Mrs. William Kefer and
Millie all of Three Oaks, besides hosts of other friends and relatives.
	The funeral was held at his late home Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Floyd R.
Maynard of Vicksburg officiating.  The rich and beautiful floral tributes
testified of the universal love and esteem in which he was held.  Brothers of
the Three Oaks M.W.A. Lodge tenderly bore the body to its resting place in
Galien Cemetery.

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