Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rogers, Webster V. Sr., 1933 

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WEBSTER VERNON ROGERS SR. 

  Webster Vernon Rogers, Sr., 81, died Friday, June 22, at his Wakefield home 
after a brief illness.

  A native of Sussex County, he was a former employee of the Surry Lumber 
Company, a floor refinisher, a veteran of the Army of World War I, and a 
member of the Wakefield Sportsman Club and the Wakefield Hunt Club.  He was 
the son of Richard Samuel and Addie Virginia Faison Rogers.

  Survivors include his wife, Bernice Branch Rogers of Wakefield; one son, 
W.V. Robert, Jr. of Wakefield, one daughter, Mrs. Sterling E. Rives of 
Petersburg; six grandchildren; and two brothers, Ashton S. Rogers of 
Greensboro, and Preston Rogers of Richmond.

  Funeral services were held at the Purviance Funeral Chapel in Wakefield 
Sunday, June 24 at 2:30 p.m. with burial at the Wakefield cemetery, Rev. R.L. 
Consolvo officiated.

  Pallbearers were V.L. Worrell, Andrew Rives, Truett Garrett, B.E. Cowling, 
Jr., Albert Cowling, Aubrey S. Whitmore and Mason West. 


Webster Vernon ROGERS, Sr., floor refinisher, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. 6 Mar 1892, Sussex Co., d. 22 Jun 1933, at home, Wakefield, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 24 Jun 1933, 
Purviance Funeral Home obit 

*His parents are also buried there.  Wakefield list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 


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