Extracted from The Daily Herald (Biloxi, MS)
WILLIE A. ROGERS
Willie Arthur Rogers, one of four persons hospitalized due to injuries sustained in a two-car collision at Chico road and Ingalls avenue in Pascagoula last S[a]turday, died at 12:30 a.m. today at the Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula. He was 65 years of age.
Born April 12, 1896, in Fontainebleau, Miss., Mr. Rogers was a lifelong resident of Vancleave. He served with the First Calvary in World War I. He was a member of the Baptist Church, Ladner Post No. 42, American Legion, Ocean Springs; Buddy's Barracks of Biloxi, Odd Fellows Lodge 45, Rebekah Lodge No. 42, Pascagoula; and Encampment of Odd Fellows of Pascagoula.
He was the son of the late John M. and Eliza Spradley Rogers of Jackson County.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Annie Havens Rogers, Vancleave; one daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Blanchard, Friend, Neb.; two brothers, John L. Rogers and Harry H. Rogers, both of Mobile, Ala.; two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Piggs, Mobile, and Mrs. Bertha Hawley, Moss Point; and four grandchildren.
The body will be taken from the Jackson County Mortuary in Pascagoula this afternoon at 5 o'clock to the family residence in the Vancleave Community.
Funeral services will be conducted from the residence at 4 p.m. Saturday by the Rev. Claude Fortenberry of the Kreole Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Vancleave No. 1 Cemetery with both military rites by the Ocean Springs American Legion adn Odd Fellow rites at the graveside.
Extracted from The Chronicle (Pascagoula, MS)
VICTIM OF WRECK W. A. ROGERS, 65, IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral Services were held Saturday for Willie Arthur Rogers, 65, who died Thursday of injuries he received July 22, in an auto accident in Pascagoula.
Rogers was one of four injured in the wreck at Ingalls Avenue and Chico Road. He died at Singing River Hospital, where he had been since the accident.
A native of Jackson County and a long-time resident of Vancleave, Rogers was a World War One veteran, a member of the Ocean Springs American Legion Post, and Pascagoula Odd Fellows Lodge.
Final rites were from his home in Vancleave. The Rev Claude Fortenberry, Kreole Baptist Church, officiated. Interment was in Vancleave Cemetery with Odd Fellows and military graveside rites.
Survivers include his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Blanchard, Friend Neb.; two brothers, John L. and Harry, both of Mobile; two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Piggs [sic Pigge], Mobile and Mrs. Bertha Hawley, Moss Point, and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers were J. B. Morgan, H. M. Waters, Calvin Bolding, John Whatley, Sam Wilkerson and J. F. Ellzey.
Services were under direction of Jackson County Mortuary, Pascagoula.
Friday, July 28, 1961
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August 1961