Submitted by Melva L Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
August 13, 1963 - Tuesday, pg 2 col 3
MINNIE M. (Howlett) ROGERS
Mrs. Minnie Rogers, Tampico, Passes Away
Tampico: - Mrs. Minnie M. Rogers, 85, died Monday in Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.
Mrs. Rogers was born April 30, 1878, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Howlett in Fairfield Township. She was reared and educated in the Tampico area. On Spet. 12, 1896, she married Charles Rogers in DeKalb. She was a 50-year member of the Royal Neighbors of America.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Mable Urban, Hooppole; three sons, Harold, Mineral, Ill., Glen, Thomas Ill., and Clark of Sterling; nine grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband who died in 1950 and 11 brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Schmidt Chapel in Tampico with the Rev. Richard Sprague of the Church of Christ in Prophetstown officiating. Burial will be in the Yorktown Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday after 7 p.m
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