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
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
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
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
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