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Submitted: 12/14/21 • Approved: 12/14/21 • Last Updated: 12/17/21 • R473578-G473578-S3
Lewis Willis
August 2, 1918-May 8, 2000
Father
Please see military marker
Irene Lois
January 14, 1917-December 24, 2004
Mother
Please see closeup view
*Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Lewis Willis
WHEELER - Lewis Willis Rogers, 81, died Monday, May 8, 2000, in Elk City, Okla.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Church of Christ with Bill Morrison, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Rogers was born in Shoshone, Idaho. He was a lifelong resident of Wheeler County and served in the Army during World War II. He was a farmer and rancher and was retired from the print shop at Ashland Chemical. He was a member of the Church of Christ and the American Legion.
Mr. Rogers married Irene Lois Switzer in 1945 at Pampa.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Linda Hink of Kelton; a son, Frank Rogers of Round Rock; a brother, Wayne Rogers of Sudan; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Wheeler Cemetery Association.
Amarillo Daily News, May 9, 2000
*Obituary Irene Lois
WHEELER - Irene Lois Switzer Rogers, 87, died Friday, Dec. 24, 2004, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Church of Christ with Dr. Shawn Johnson, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Rogers was born Jan. 14, 1917, in Koskonong, Mo., to Alva Benton Switzer and Mary Viola Johnston Switzer. She moved to San Diego during World War II and worked in an aircraft plant, then she moved to San Francisco and worked in the shipyard until she moved to Pampa in 1945. She met and married Lewis Rogers on Dec. 12, 1945, in Pampa. He died in 2000.
They moved to Wheeler in 1949, and she was employed by Shamrock Nursing Home and Parkview Hospital in Wheeler. She was a member of Church of Christ, American Legion Auxiliary and the 54 Study Club. Mrs. Rogers' hobbies were crafts and baking for people who needed her help.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three brothers; and two sisters.
Survivors include a daughter, Linda Hink of Wheeler; a son, Frank Rogers of Round Rock; a brother, C.H. Switzer of Hobbs, N.M.; two sisters, Mable Adams and Artie Harrington, both of Pampa; six grandchildren; and four great-grandsons.
The family suggests memorials be to the Wheeler Cemetery Association.
Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 25, 2004
Contributed on 12/14/21
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