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Temple Searcy Rogers © Enid News 05-1986 Submitted by: Glenn
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April 1, 1899 - May 13, 1986
Temple Searcy Rogers, 87, died Tuesday, May 13, 1986 at a local hospital after a recent illness. The funeral will be 10 AM Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church with Doctor Robert Young, associate minister, officiating. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Brown Funeral Home.
Mrs. Rogers was born April 1, 1899, on a claim west of Garber made during the Cherokee Strip Run by her parents, Stephen and Margaret Powell Searcy. She attended area schools and graduated from Enid high school. She then attended Enid Business College before teaching school in Garber.
On January 29, 1920, she and Hugh Donnan Rogers were married in Garber. He died in 1971. They had been married 51 years.
Mrs. Rogers was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church as well as a member of the Women's Association and past President of Circle 4. She also was a lifetime member of the Sons and Daughters of the Cherokee Pioneers, a charter member of the Cherokee Strip Museum, a member and past Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a member of the Garden Study Club of Enid, the Kiwanis Queens and the Young at Heart Club.
Survivors include two sons, Bruce Donnan Rogers, Enid, and Steve H. Rogers, Fort Worth, Texas; a daughter, Marybelle Meade, Arcata, California; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great – grandchildren.
Besides her husband, Hugh, she was preceded in death by two sisters.
Memorials in her name may be made to the First Presbyterian Church with the funeral home serving as custodian of the funds.
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