Amy Shawn Rogers

© The Chickasha Express-Star

Thursday, 10 November 2005

Submitted by: Sandi Carter

Amy Shawn Rogers, born November 25, 1966 in Enid, Oklahoma to Donald E. and Nancy A. (Cook) Rogers. Died November 8, 2005, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after a brief illness, aged 38 years.

Amy grew up in Chickasha and graduated from Chickasha High School in 1985. She earned a Bachelor's of Arts at USAO and a Master's of Education at Texas A&M. Amy worked in education all her life. She began her career at the Camelot School in College Station, Texas, teaching preschool. She then moved to Galveston and worked for the State of Texas as a social worker licensing and regulating daycare centers.

In Oklahoma, she taught elementary school in Putnam School, and at Monroe and Wilson in Norman. She became Wilson Elementary School's math specialist in 2003.

Amy achieved outstanding success in the position, helping the children at Wilson learn to love math and to improve the school's overall math scores impressively.

Amy was preceded in death by her grandparents Max L. Cook of Waynoka, Ruth and Willard Rogers of May, and her brother Dr. Mark A. Rogers of Oklahoma City. She leaves to mourn her parents Nancy Ann Cook of Moore, and Donald E. Rogers of Yukon; her sister Kimberly Richardson and Kim's husband Tim, her beloved niece and nephew Rachel and Ryan Richardson of Austin, Texas; her grandmother Frances E. Cook of Norman; her aunts and uncles Cyndie Cook of Norman, Catharine Cook of Chickasha, Candace & Roger Fife of Paola, KS, Betty Herring of Oregon, Eldon & Virginia Rogers of California, Glenda Reinier of Iowa, Leroy Rogers, Shirley and Gene Weiszbrod, Mary Harper, Stella Freeman, and Tom & Linda Rogers, all of Oklahoma; as well as her special friends Mark Shannan Smith of Oklahoma City, J. W. Antony and his daughter Kate of Edmond; and her many cousins, dear friends, and students.

Amy had an unfailingly sunny disposition, and a beautiful singing voice.

She was an inspired cook and a great dancer. Whenever one things of Amy, one hears her laughing.

She will be greatly missed. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?" - Jane Austen

Services for Amy will be held on Friday, November 11, 2005 at 5 p.m. at the Vondel L. Smith & Son Mortuary, 6934 S. Western, Oklahoma City.

In lieu of flowers, donations may ber made to the Norman Public Schools Foundation, Grants-to-Teachers Program, 131 S. Flood, Norman, OK 73069.

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