Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rodgers, Burt F. February 22, 1944
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Lake Odessa Wave - February 26, 1944
          BURT RODGERS DIED SUDDENLY SUNDAY A.M.
   Burt F. Rodgers, 75, well known resident of Lake Odessa and vicinity died
unexpectedly from a heart attack 
at his home on Fifth Avenue, Sunday morning at about 9:30.  He had taken care of the
furnace fire, eaten his 
breakfast and then collapsed.  He had been subject to heart lapsed.
   Mr. Rodgers was the son of William and Charlotte Rodgers of England and Canada
respectively who came to 
Odessa township where he was born on November 19, 1868.
   In 1895 he was married to Miss Clara Knoll of Sebewa and to this union four
daughters were born.
   In February 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers moved from their farm home in Odessa to
Lake Odessa where he 
has been a loyal and active citizen.  He was a friend and neighbor to everyone in
need of help and was over 
ready to give his assistance.  As he was capable of adapting himself to many kinds
of work, he was often 
called upon for help.  He has done much driving in the livestock business for A. L.
Behler here since he retired 
from the farm.
   He was a faithful Chistian being affiliated with the East Odessa Wesleyan church
and the Lake Odessa 
Calvary United Brethren church.
   Beside the widow, he is survived by four daughters, mrs. Floyd Banker, a
missionary in India, Mrs. Morley C. 
Hough in Lake Odessa, Mrs. Harry Sandbrook in Woodland, and Mrs. York Duffy of
Kalamazoo.  There are 
seven grandchildren, his mother-in-law Mrs. Isabelle Knoll, who is 93 years old and
has spent some time in 
the Rodgers home.
   The funeral was held at the Wortley & Baine chapel Tuesday afternoon with the
Rev. Roy Houghton of 
Calvary church officiating.  Music was furnished by Mrs. Lester Yonkers and Mrs.
Lawwrence Wait.  Interment 
was made in Lakeside cemetery.  Bearers were A. I. Behler, Maurice and Sherwood
Durkee, R. C. Johnson, W. 
C. McCartney, and Ivan Courtnay.
   Those from out of town who were in attendance at the funeral were Mrs. Oscar
Carter, Mrs. Leonard Steele, 
Mrs. John Leabo and William Frank and Harry Calhoun, all of Northport, Mrs. and Mrs.
John Monk and 
daughter Mrs. Ed Schaupp and Mrs. Edith Wellman of Dundee,  Mrs. Laura Noyes and
daughter Mrs. Gilbert 
Dickinson of Nashville.
   Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Durkee of Freemont, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Durkee, Miss Lucile
Durkee, and Mrs. Don 
Stowell of Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Musgrove and Henry Healey of Grand Rapids,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
Sandbrook, and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Sandbrook of Blanchard.
   Mr. and Mrs. Charles Darling of Lansing.

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