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Robert French Rogers

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Robert French Rogers

Birth
Crabtree, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
Death
14 Feb 1979 (aged 96)
Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Clyde, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Bob was named for a Methodist preacher. He married Miss Lily Blythe McCracken of Big Branch on Oct. 1, 1912. Their first baby, Pauline, died when she was a month old, but five other children lived to adulthood.He loved people and liked nothing better than to pull practical jokes on his friends. His obituary reads:

Clyde--Robert French Rogers, 96, of Route 1 Clyde, died Wednesday in a Waynesville Rest Home after a long illness. A native and lifelong resident of the Upper Crabtree community of Haywood County, he was a son of the late Asbury Thornton and Lorena Davis Rogers. He was a retired farmer and was the husband of Bly McCracken Rogers who died in 1974.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jack W. Chapman (Hazel) of Canton and Mrs. James Kiser (Christine) of Newport News, VA.; three sons, Cassius M. and David R. Rogers of Clyde and George V. Rogers of Waynesville; ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Mount Zion United Methodist Church, of which he was a member. The Revs. Jack Waldrep and Milburn Parham will officiate. Burial will be in the Upper Crabtree Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Wells Funeral Home, Canton, where the body will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes before the services.
Memorials may be made to Mount Zion United Methodist Church.
Bob was named for a Methodist preacher. He married Miss Lily Blythe McCracken of Big Branch on Oct. 1, 1912. Their first baby, Pauline, died when she was a month old, but five other children lived to adulthood.He loved people and liked nothing better than to pull practical jokes on his friends. His obituary reads:

Clyde--Robert French Rogers, 96, of Route 1 Clyde, died Wednesday in a Waynesville Rest Home after a long illness. A native and lifelong resident of the Upper Crabtree community of Haywood County, he was a son of the late Asbury Thornton and Lorena Davis Rogers. He was a retired farmer and was the husband of Bly McCracken Rogers who died in 1974.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jack W. Chapman (Hazel) of Canton and Mrs. James Kiser (Christine) of Newport News, VA.; three sons, Cassius M. and David R. Rogers of Clyde and George V. Rogers of Waynesville; ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Mount Zion United Methodist Church, of which he was a member. The Revs. Jack Waldrep and Milburn Parham will officiate. Burial will be in the Upper Crabtree Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Wells Funeral Home, Canton, where the body will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes before the services.
Memorials may be made to Mount Zion United Methodist Church.

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