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Submitted: 3/31/21 • Approved: 4/1/21 • Last Updated: 4/4/21 • R403505-G0-S3
US Army Air Corps
B-25 Pilot
World War II
October 19, 1919 - December 14, 2000
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - John C. Rogers, 81, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Fairlanes Baptist Church with Andy Dietz, minister of missions at First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Garden of Devotion at Westlawn Memorial Park by Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Rogers was born in Morris, Okla., and had lived in Borger since 1942. He served in the Army Air Corps as a B-25 pilot during World War II.
He retired as night superintendent from Phillips Petroleum Co.
Mr. Rogers was a member of Fairlanes Baptist Church and the Adobe Walls Masonic Lodge No. 1355.
Mr. Rogers married Velma Brooks in 1939 at Pawnee, Okla. She died in 1988.
Survivors include a son, John C. Rogers of Canyon; a daughter, Kristy K. Huff of Borger; three sisters, Mildred L. Wyatt of Rogers, Ark., Imogene D. Stanford of Rogers, Texas, and Dale Grayum of Pampa; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176-0001.
The family will be at 2233 Huber Ave.
Amarillo Daily News, Dec. 16, 2000
Contributed on 3/31/21 by neldapat
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