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Published in the Pilot Tribune October 27, 1949.
WIFE OF FORMER FLORIST SUCCUMBS; HUSBAND AND LARGE FAMILY SURVIVE
Ill six years, Mrs. William J. Rodgers died Saturday evening at the family home, 105 South First St, She was 85 years old.
Her husband operated the Blair Greenhouse for many years before selling it to Bert Trisdale in June, 1945.
The body was removed to the Campbell Mortuary. Requiem High Mass was conducted at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church at 9 a.m. Monday, and interment followed in Blair Cemetery.
Louise Johanna Huser was born February 28, 1864, at Essen, Germany. She and W. J. Pieper were married in Germany in 1884 and sailed to for the United States in 1893. Enroute here, one of their children, a daughter, age 5 died of diphtheria and was buried at sea.
Arriving in America, the Pipers settled at Monongahela, Pa., where Mr. Pieper died February, 1901. On Sept. 22, 1904, Mrs. Pieper was married W. J. Rodgers, a native of Scotland.
Mrs. Rodger raised a family of eight children, three of them by her first marriage and three by Mr. Rodgers' marriage, and two by their own union.
The Rodgers family came to Blair in 1907, and five years later Mr. Rodgers and his stepson, William T. Pieper, founded the Blair Greenhouse.
Surviving Mrs. Rodgers are her husband, W. J.; three children by her first marriage, William Pieper of Youngstown, O., Mrs. Ida Edmiston and Carl Pieper, both of Blair; two children by the second union, Mrs. Fenton Sully (nee Louise Rodgers) of Venice, Calif., and William Rodgers, Jr., of Macon, Ga.; and children by Mr. Rodgers first marriage, Mrs. Agnes Allen of Banning, Ga., and Mrs. Helen Robertson of Laramie, Wyo. Mrs. Jessie Gustason, also a daughter of Mr. Rodgers by his first marriage, died in Blair in 1921.
Also surviving Mrs. Rodgers are 20 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Published in the Pilot Tribune October 27, 1949.
WIFE OF FORMER FLORIST SUCCUMBS; HUSBAND AND LARGE FAMILY SURVIVE
Ill six years, Mrs. William J. Rodgers died Saturday evening at the family home, 105 South First St, She was 85 years old.
Her husband operated the Blair Greenhouse for many years before selling it to Bert Trisdale in June, 1945.
The body was removed to the Campbell Mortuary. Requiem High Mass was conducted at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church at 9 a.m. Monday, and interment followed in Blair Cemetery.
Louise Johanna Huser was born February 28, 1864, at Essen, Germany. She and W. J. Pieper were married in Germany in 1884 and sailed to for the United States in 1893. Enroute here, one of their children, a daughter, age 5 died of diphtheria and was buried at sea.
Arriving in America, the Pipers settled at Monongahela, Pa., where Mr. Pieper died February, 1901. On Sept. 22, 1904, Mrs. Pieper was married W. J. Rodgers, a native of Scotland.
Mrs. Rodger raised a family of eight children, three of them by her first marriage and three by Mr. Rodgers' marriage, and two by their own union.
The Rodgers family came to Blair in 1907, and five years later Mr. Rodgers and his stepson, William T. Pieper, founded the Blair Greenhouse.
Surviving Mrs. Rodgers are her husband, W. J.; three children by her first marriage, William Pieper of Youngstown, O., Mrs. Ida Edmiston and Carl Pieper, both of Blair; two children by the second union, Mrs. Fenton Sully (nee Louise Rodgers) of Venice, Calif., and William Rodgers, Jr., of Macon, Ga.; and children by Mr. Rodgers first marriage, Mrs. Agnes Allen of Banning, Ga., and Mrs. Helen Robertson of Laramie, Wyo. Mrs. Jessie Gustason, also a daughter of Mr. Rodgers by his first marriage, died in Blair in 1921.
Also surviving Mrs. Rodgers are 20 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
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Published in the Pilot Tribune October 27, 1949.
WIFE OF FORMER FLORIST SUCCUMBS; HUSBAND AND LARGE FAMILY SURVIVE
Ill six years, Mrs. William J. Rodgers died Saturday evening at the family home, 105 South First St, She was 85 years old.
Her husband operated the Blair Greenhouse for many years before selling it to Bert Trisdale in June, 1945.
The body was removed to the Campbell Mortuary. Requiem High Mass was conducted at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church at 9 a.m. Monday, and interment followed in Blair Cemetery.
Louise Johanna Huser was born February 28, 1864, at Essen, Germany. She and W. J. Pieper were married in Germany in 1884 and sailed to for the United States in 1893. Enroute here, one of their children, a daughter, age 5 died of diphtheria and was buried at sea.
Arriving in America, the Pipers settled at Monongahela, Pa., where Mr. Pieper died February, 1901. On Sept. 22, 1904, Mrs. Pieper was married W. J. Rodgers, a native of Scotland.
Mrs. Rodger raised a family of eight children, three of them by her first marriage and three by Mr. Rodgers' marriage, and two by their own union.
The Rodgers family came to Blair in 1907, and five years later Mr. Rodgers and his stepson, William T. Pieper, founded the Blair Greenhouse.
Surviving Mrs. Rodgers are her husband, W. J.; three children by her first marriage, William Pieper of Youngstown, O., Mrs. Ida Edmiston and Carl Pieper, both of Blair; two children by the second union, Mrs. Fenton Sully (nee Louise Rodgers) of Venice, Calif., and William Rodgers, Jr., of Macon, Ga.; and children by Mr. Rodgers first marriage, Mrs. Agnes Allen of Banning, Ga., and Mrs. Helen Robertson of Laramie, Wyo. Mrs. Jessie Gustason, also a daughter of Mr. Rodgers by his first marriage, died in Blair in 1921.
Also surviving Mrs. Rodgers are 20 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Published in the Pilot Tribune October 27, 1949.
WIFE OF FORMER FLORIST SUCCUMBS; HUSBAND AND LARGE FAMILY SURVIVE
Ill six years, Mrs. William J. Rodgers died Saturday evening at the family home, 105 South First St, She was 85 years old.
Her husband operated the Blair Greenhouse for many years before selling it to Bert Trisdale in June, 1945.
The body was removed to the Campbell Mortuary. Requiem High Mass was conducted at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church at 9 a.m. Monday, and interment followed in Blair Cemetery.
Louise Johanna Huser was born February 28, 1864, at Essen, Germany. She and W. J. Pieper were married in Germany in 1884 and sailed to for the United States in 1893. Enroute here, one of their children, a daughter, age 5 died of diphtheria and was buried at sea.
Arriving in America, the Pipers settled at Monongahela, Pa., where Mr. Pieper died February, 1901. On Sept. 22, 1904, Mrs. Pieper was married W. J. Rodgers, a native of Scotland.
Mrs. Rodger raised a family of eight children, three of them by her first marriage and three by Mr. Rodgers' marriage, and two by their own union.
The Rodgers family came to Blair in 1907, and five years later Mr. Rodgers and his stepson, William T. Pieper, founded the Blair Greenhouse.
Surviving Mrs. Rodgers are her husband, W. J.; three children by her first marriage, William Pieper of Youngstown, O., Mrs. Ida Edmiston and Carl Pieper, both of Blair; two children by the second union, Mrs. Fenton Sully (nee Louise Rodgers) of Venice, Calif., and William Rodgers, Jr., of Macon, Ga.; and children by Mr. Rodgers first marriage, Mrs. Agnes Allen of Banning, Ga., and Mrs. Helen Robertson of Laramie, Wyo. Mrs. Jessie Gustason, also a daughter of Mr. Rodgers by his first marriage, died in Blair in 1921.
Also surviving Mrs. Rodgers are 20 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
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