Lawrence Harry Rogers, 94, of Magnolia, died Friday, Dec. 28, 2007, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville.
He was a retired LaRue County businessman, public servant, farmer, U.S. Army veteran, former funeral director and embalmer and LaRue County coroner. He resided at the North Hardin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Radcliff on property once owned by Rogers' grandparents, Edwin and Matilda Stovall.
The native of the north Hardin County community of Rogersville graduated from Vine Grove High School in 1933. He married the former Mary Willia "Cricket" Atwood in 1937. During their nearly 70-year marriage, the couple lived in Glendale and Elizabethtown before moving to Magnolia in the early 1940s. Inducted in 1945, Rogers was a corporal in the U.S. Army, serving with Company A of the 161st Medical Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash. He received the American Theater Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal prior to his honorable discharge in 1946.
He graduated from Kentucky School of Embalming in 1947. Originally, the Rogerses co-owned the funeral home in Magnolia with R. Lee Dixon, who later sold his part of the firm to the couple. It then was renamed Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home. They retired at age 81, selling the funeral home to George Bertram of Bennett-Bertram Funeral Home in Hodgenville.
During their years as funeral directors, the Rogerses also provided emergency medical transportation to residents of LaRue and Hart counties. Rogers served multiple terms as LaRue County coroner. He was a charter member of the Magnolia Lions Club that recruited the community's first physician. Rogers also helped establish the Magnolia Fire Department and served as one of its first chiefs. He was a member of the Bank of Buffalo Board of Directors and the first trustee from the Magnolia/Buffalo area to serve on the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Board. He was a member of the Magnolia Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and was a 65-year member of Gavel Lodge No. 570 F&AM in Magnolia.
The son of a full-time farmer, Rogers established Minglewood Farm, a Charolais cattle operation in Hart County. With his wife, he tended a large garden and orchard on their property in Magnolia in the center of a subdivision he and his brother-in-law, Logan Dixon, created.
Rogers was preceded in death by his wife in 2006 and their daughters, Mary Lawrence Prather, in 1988, and L. Ann Naser Wise, in 2000. Also preceding him in death were his two sisters, Marjorie Swan and Dorothy Nalley and his parents, Edward Rogers and the former Ida Lavenia Stovall.
Survivors include four grandchildren, Larry Naser and his wife, Beverly, of Brandenburg, Krista Prather Roberts and her husband, Larry, of Dacula, Ga., Rebecca Naser of Lexington and Dannah Prather of Louisville; six great-grandchildren, Charlie and Abby Naser of Brandenburg, Charlotte Naser of Lexington, and Walt, Kevin and Laura Roberts of Dacula, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral is at 11 a.m. Monday at Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home in Magnolia with the Rev. Gary Talley officiating. Burial will follow in Hardin Memorial Park in Elizabethtown.
He was a retired LaRue County businessman, public servant, farmer, U.S. Army veteran, former funeral director and embalmer and LaRue County coroner. He resided at the North Hardin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Radcliff on property once owned by Rogers' grandparents, Edwin and Matilda Stovall.
The native of the north Hardin County community of Rogersville graduated from Vine Grove High School in 1933. He married the former Mary Willia "Cricket" Atwood in 1937. During their nearly 70-year marriage, the couple lived in Glendale and Elizabethtown before moving to Magnolia in the early 1940s. Inducted in 1945, Rogers was a corporal in the U.S. Army, serving with Company A of the 161st Medical Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash. He received the American Theater Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal prior to his honorable discharge in 1946.
He graduated from Kentucky School of Embalming in 1947. Originally, the Rogerses co-owned the funeral home in Magnolia with R. Lee Dixon, who later sold his part of the firm to the couple. It then was renamed Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home. They retired at age 81, selling the funeral home to George Bertram of Bennett-Bertram Funeral Home in Hodgenville.
During their years as funeral directors, the Rogerses also provided emergency medical transportation to residents of LaRue and Hart counties. Rogers served multiple terms as LaRue County coroner. He was a charter member of the Magnolia Lions Club that recruited the community's first physician. Rogers also helped establish the Magnolia Fire Department and served as one of its first chiefs. He was a member of the Bank of Buffalo Board of Directors and the first trustee from the Magnolia/Buffalo area to serve on the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Board. He was a member of the Magnolia Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and was a 65-year member of Gavel Lodge No. 570 F&AM in Magnolia.
The son of a full-time farmer, Rogers established Minglewood Farm, a Charolais cattle operation in Hart County. With his wife, he tended a large garden and orchard on their property in Magnolia in the center of a subdivision he and his brother-in-law, Logan Dixon, created.
Rogers was preceded in death by his wife in 2006 and their daughters, Mary Lawrence Prather, in 1988, and L. Ann Naser Wise, in 2000. Also preceding him in death were his two sisters, Marjorie Swan and Dorothy Nalley and his parents, Edward Rogers and the former Ida Lavenia Stovall.
Survivors include four grandchildren, Larry Naser and his wife, Beverly, of Brandenburg, Krista Prather Roberts and her husband, Larry, of Dacula, Ga., Rebecca Naser of Lexington and Dannah Prather of Louisville; six great-grandchildren, Charlie and Abby Naser of Brandenburg, Charlotte Naser of Lexington, and Walt, Kevin and Laura Roberts of Dacula, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral is at 11 a.m. Monday at Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home in Magnolia with the Rev. Gary Talley officiating. Burial will follow in Hardin Memorial Park in Elizabethtown.
Lawrence Harry Rogers, 94, of Magnolia, died Friday, Dec. 28, 2007, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville.
He was a retired LaRue County businessman, public servant, farmer, U.S. Army veteran, former funeral director and embalmer and LaRue County coroner. He resided at the North Hardin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Radcliff on property once owned by Rogers' grandparents, Edwin and Matilda Stovall.
The native of the north Hardin County community of Rogersville graduated from Vine Grove High School in 1933. He married the former Mary Willia "Cricket" Atwood in 1937. During their nearly 70-year marriage, the couple lived in Glendale and Elizabethtown before moving to Magnolia in the early 1940s. Inducted in 1945, Rogers was a corporal in the U.S. Army, serving with Company A of the 161st Medical Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash. He received the American Theater Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal prior to his honorable discharge in 1946.
He graduated from Kentucky School of Embalming in 1947. Originally, the Rogerses co-owned the funeral home in Magnolia with R. Lee Dixon, who later sold his part of the firm to the couple. It then was renamed Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home. They retired at age 81, selling the funeral home to George Bertram of Bennett-Bertram Funeral Home in Hodgenville.
During their years as funeral directors, the Rogerses also provided emergency medical transportation to residents of LaRue and Hart counties. Rogers served multiple terms as LaRue County coroner. He was a charter member of the Magnolia Lions Club that recruited the community's first physician. Rogers also helped establish the Magnolia Fire Department and served as one of its first chiefs. He was a member of the Bank of Buffalo Board of Directors and the first trustee from the Magnolia/Buffalo area to serve on the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Board. He was a member of the Magnolia Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and was a 65-year member of Gavel Lodge No. 570 F&AM in Magnolia.
The son of a full-time farmer, Rogers established Minglewood Farm, a Charolais cattle operation in Hart County. With his wife, he tended a large garden and orchard on their property in Magnolia in the center of a subdivision he and his brother-in-law, Logan Dixon, created.
Rogers was preceded in death by his wife in 2006 and their daughters, Mary Lawrence Prather, in 1988, and L. Ann Naser Wise, in 2000. Also preceding him in death were his two sisters, Marjorie Swan and Dorothy Nalley and his parents, Edward Rogers and the former Ida Lavenia Stovall.
Survivors include four grandchildren, Larry Naser and his wife, Beverly, of Brandenburg, Krista Prather Roberts and her husband, Larry, of Dacula, Ga., Rebecca Naser of Lexington and Dannah Prather of Louisville; six great-grandchildren, Charlie and Abby Naser of Brandenburg, Charlotte Naser of Lexington, and Walt, Kevin and Laura Roberts of Dacula, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral is at 11 a.m. Monday at Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home in Magnolia with the Rev. Gary Talley officiating. Burial will follow in Hardin Memorial Park in Elizabethtown.
He was a retired LaRue County businessman, public servant, farmer, U.S. Army veteran, former funeral director and embalmer and LaRue County coroner. He resided at the North Hardin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Radcliff on property once owned by Rogers' grandparents, Edwin and Matilda Stovall.
The native of the north Hardin County community of Rogersville graduated from Vine Grove High School in 1933. He married the former Mary Willia "Cricket" Atwood in 1937. During their nearly 70-year marriage, the couple lived in Glendale and Elizabethtown before moving to Magnolia in the early 1940s. Inducted in 1945, Rogers was a corporal in the U.S. Army, serving with Company A of the 161st Medical Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash. He received the American Theater Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal prior to his honorable discharge in 1946.
He graduated from Kentucky School of Embalming in 1947. Originally, the Rogerses co-owned the funeral home in Magnolia with R. Lee Dixon, who later sold his part of the firm to the couple. It then was renamed Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home. They retired at age 81, selling the funeral home to George Bertram of Bennett-Bertram Funeral Home in Hodgenville.
During their years as funeral directors, the Rogerses also provided emergency medical transportation to residents of LaRue and Hart counties. Rogers served multiple terms as LaRue County coroner. He was a charter member of the Magnolia Lions Club that recruited the community's first physician. Rogers also helped establish the Magnolia Fire Department and served as one of its first chiefs. He was a member of the Bank of Buffalo Board of Directors and the first trustee from the Magnolia/Buffalo area to serve on the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Board. He was a member of the Magnolia Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and was a 65-year member of Gavel Lodge No. 570 F&AM in Magnolia.
The son of a full-time farmer, Rogers established Minglewood Farm, a Charolais cattle operation in Hart County. With his wife, he tended a large garden and orchard on their property in Magnolia in the center of a subdivision he and his brother-in-law, Logan Dixon, created.
Rogers was preceded in death by his wife in 2006 and their daughters, Mary Lawrence Prather, in 1988, and L. Ann Naser Wise, in 2000. Also preceding him in death were his two sisters, Marjorie Swan and Dorothy Nalley and his parents, Edward Rogers and the former Ida Lavenia Stovall.
Survivors include four grandchildren, Larry Naser and his wife, Beverly, of Brandenburg, Krista Prather Roberts and her husband, Larry, of Dacula, Ga., Rebecca Naser of Lexington and Dannah Prather of Louisville; six great-grandchildren, Charlie and Abby Naser of Brandenburg, Charlotte Naser of Lexington, and Walt, Kevin and Laura Roberts of Dacula, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral is at 11 a.m. Monday at Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home in Magnolia with the Rev. Gary Talley officiating. Burial will follow in Hardin Memorial Park in Elizabethtown.
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