Tillman County, OK - obit - Mrs. Grace Dodson Rogers Contributed by Rosemary Myers ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** THE FREDERICK LEADER, Friday, February 21, 1936, front page: Funeral For Mrs. Rogers Saturday Rev. R.O. Callahan Will Be In Charge of Services At Methodist Church BODY RETURNED HERE Prominent Frederick Woman Succumbed Late Thursday In Wichita Falls Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the First Methodist Church for Mrs. Grace Dodson Rogers, wife of Dr. J. Joe Rogers, who passed on late Thursday night of double pneumonia. Rev. R.O. Callahan, pastor of the Methodist Church here, will be in charge of the services. Interment will be made in the Frederick Cemetery. Mrs. Rogers succumbed in the Wichita Falls Clinic Hospital at ?:55 p.m. Thursday. She had been taken there Wednesday night when her condition became extremely grave. At the hospital she was treated under an oxygen tent and was given blood transfusions in an effort to rally her strength. These operations failed and late in the evening hope that she might live was abandoned. The Rogers children and other relatives who had returned to Frederick an hour earlier were summoned back to Wichita Falls. Native of Missouri Grace Mae Dodson was born October 1, 1893, at Mountain Grove, Missouri, where she spent her early childhood. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Dodson. The family came to Frederick in 1907, and Dodson served as superintendent of schools here until 1911. The Dodson then went to Durant to make their home. The deceased was graduated from Frederick High School with the class of 1912 and in 1915 received her degree in education from Southeastern State Teacher's College at Durant. For a time she taught in the public schools at Hugo. She was married to Dr. J. Joe Rogers on June 6, 1917, in Durant, a short time after Dr. Rogers completed his dental education. They came immediately to Frederick to make their home. The nuptials culminated an ideal romance that had it's inception when both were grade school students and flowered in their later and more mature high school and college years. Led Active Life To all who knew her, Mrs. Rogers exemplified and ideal as a wife, a mother, a friend, a neighbor and a leader of others. Throughout her lifetime she exemplified all that is fine and good. She was a leader of others from the days of her school work in Frederick and the time that she came back to set up a home that developed in an ideal manner. Many Affiliations She was a member of the Methodist Church and ever active in its affairs. She belonged to AS chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood in Frederick and to the Eastern Star. She held membership in the American Legion Auxiliary and was active in Mother's Culture Club. She found time always for the care and guidance of her children and the maintenance of her home, and still worked energetically and effectually to the unbuilding of everything that was good for Frederick. Added to these activities was her prominence as a member of Parent-Teacher Association in the schools in which her children studied. The sphere of her influence was wide. She was without enemies. She was one of the strongest among those forces that build the part of Frederick which feminine hands have cultivated. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Rogers is survived by four children. Leta Phyllis, Jo Jean, Roy Richard and William Wayne, all of Frederick; her mother, Mrs. W.T. Dodson, of Oklahoma City; and these brothers and sisters: Vance Dodson, Albert Lea, Minnesota; Merle Dodson, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Jewel Linaker, Muskogee, Michigan; Mrs. Ethlyn Forline, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Lianett Phelps, Oklahoma city; and Mrs. Fay Parrish, Wichita, Kansas. THE OKLAHOMAN, Sunday, Feb 23, 1936 Rites Conducted for Mrs. Rogers FREDERICK, Feb. 22.--(Special)-- Two thousand persons including many from other southern Oklahoma towns paid tribute here Saturday afternoon to the memory of Mrs. Grace Dodson Rogers, wife of Dr. J. Joe Rogers, mayor of Frederick. The Methodist church held only a part of the throng. Rites were conducted by Rev. Omar Callahad. The minister praised the exemplary life of Mrs. Rogers as a wife, mother, neighbor and citizen. Interment was in Frederick cemetery.