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ROGERS, Edith Lane

Source: The obituary is from a collection of newspaper (paper names not recorded) obituaries saved, by Fauniel Hershberger, during the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's. She was a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana.  The collection is now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library.

NEWTON -- Services for Mrs. Edith Rogers, 68, resident of the Newtown area until about 1947 who died at 9 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 17, 1968) at the hospital in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Alexander Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs with burial there. Mrs. Rogers had been ill about 10 days following a cerebral hemorrhage. Native of near Glasgow, Ky., she was born April 1, 1900, and moved to this area at about the time of her marriage in 1936 to Harry Rogers of Newtown. He died four years ago. Survivors include a brother, Dick Lane, formerly of Danville and now of Palm Springs, Calif., and a sister, Mrs. Linnie Pedigo of Louisville, Ky. A son, Paul, was killed in action with the U. S. Army in World War II. A brother, Jack, also preceded her in death.   --typed by Walt W



Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1960 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. Year 1968

NEWTOWN — Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Rogers, age 68, a former resident of the Newtown area, who died at 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at the hospital in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., were held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Alexander Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs.  Burial was in a cemetery there.
Mrs. Rogers had been ill about 10 days following a cerebral hemorrhage.
She was born near Glasgow, Ky., April 1, 1900, and moved to the Newtown area about the time of her marriage in 1936 to Harry Rogers of Newtown. He preceded her in death four years ago.
Survivors include: one brother, Dick Lane, formerly of Danville, Ill., and now of Palm Springs, Calif., and one sister, Mrs. Linnie Pedigo of Louisville, Ky.
A son, Paul, was killed in action with the U.S. Army in World War II.  A brother Jack, also preceded her in death.

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