TITLE:   Eleanor Sexton Rogers, Obituary, Jan. 22, 2001,

SUBMITTERS:  Portsmouth Herald, http://www.seacoastonline.com
             111 Maplewood Aveue, Portsmouth, NH (issue Jan 25, 2001 )

FORMATTED:   by CParziale, 2001

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Eleanor Sexton Rogers 

RYE - Eleanor Sexton Rogers, 80, of Rye, died peacefully Monday,
Jan. 22, 2001, following a series of heart failures after a stroke she
suffered in spring of 1999. 

Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., she was the daughter of Lawrence and Emma
(Mantz) Donahue. 

She joined the WACs in 1942 and worked as a telegraph operator in
air traffic control in Fort Knox, Ky., where she met and married Lt.
John F. Sexton, also serving in the Army Air Corps. Together they
lived in various parts of the United States and abroad, France and
Okinawa. They had five children. 

Widowed at 36, she purchased the summer home of her sister-in-law
and moved to Rye, where she raised five children. A single mother,
she supported the family by working at home for organizations such
as Harris Polls, doing political surveys, and selling Avon and the
World Book. Active in the Democratic Women's Club, she was also
an avid seamstress and had pleasure in making quilts as well as
dresses for her daughters. 

A child of the Depression, she took great pride in returning to school
as an adult to complete her high school diploma in her 50s. She is a
graduate of Portsmouth High School. 

She married Alfred Rogers in 1982, who passed away in October
1998. 

Survivors include her five children: Cindy Sexton Lewis and husband,
John, of Durham, Eleanor Sexton of Durham, John Sexton and his
wife, Jackie, of Rye, Elaine Sexton of New York, and William Sexton
of Rye; five grandchildren, Michael, David and Madeline Sexton
Lewis, Anne Sexton and Jennifer Sexton; and her "adopted" daughter,
Maureen Baldwin. 

ROGERS - Eleanor Sexton Rogers, 80, of 56 Cable Road, Rye,
died Jan. 22, 2001. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 10
a.m. on Friday at St. Theresa Church in Rye Beach. Visiting hours
from 4 to 7 p.m. today (Thursday) at the Farrell Funeral Home, 684
State St., Portsmouth. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital, 505 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38105. 




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