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Elsie Janice Wray Rodgers © Alva Review-Courier 05-17-2020 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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July 18, 1934 - May 14, 2020
A private graveside and burial service will be held at the Alva Municipal Cemetery on Monday, May 18, 2020, at 2 p.m. with Pastor Neal Gordon, Town & Country Christian Church, officiating. Online condolences may be made at http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.
Elsie Janice Wray Rodgers, daughter of Arzilla (Katherman) and George Wray, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 18, 1934 and passed away on May 14, 2020 at the age of 85 years, 9 months and 26 days.
She attended East High School and graduated with the class of 1951.
Miss Wray was married to Donald Lee Barr in 1951 and to this union five children were born, Julia, Janice, Jeff, Joyce and Jill.
She received her bachelor of science in 1968, and began her teaching career in the business department as an accounting teacher at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. She went to Stillwater during the summer to obtain her master's degree. She was also recognized as an Oklahoma Outstanding Accountant Educator and awarded a fellowship at NWOSU. In 1985 she took the CPA test, which she passed the first time, and began preparing personal taxes in 1987. She retired from teaching in 1995.
Elsie was married to Ira James Rodgers in Alva, Oklahoma, in 1980.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, George (Bus) Wray; her husband, Jim Rodgers; and granddaughters Michelle Mathis and Connie Hofer.
She is survived by four daughters and their husbands, Julia and Johnny Bartlett, Janice and David Mathis, Joyce and Darren Stebens and Jill and Robert Glasse; a son and his wife, Jeff and Janette Barr and stepdaughter Carolyn Hofer; 18 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren; a number of nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to Town & Country Christian Church, Woman of the Moose #1643 or the NWOSU Foundation business department through Wharton Funeral Chapel.
Ira James Rodgers © Alva Review-Courier 06-10-2004 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
June 16, 1925 - June 9, 2004
Ira James 'Jim' Rodgers, son of the late Arthur and Ethyl Mandy (Skinner) Rodgers, was born June 16, 1925 at Gore, Oklahoma, and passed away June 9, 2004, at Share Medical Center in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 78 years, 11 months, and 23 days.
Besides his parents and his wife, Avis, he was preceded in death by one sister, Missouri; and two grandchildren; Michelle Mathis and James Lee Hofer.
Jim is survived by his wife, Elsie, of Alva; two step daughters with his marriage with Avis, Carolyn Hofer and her husband, Bill, of Alva, and Sandra Redlon and her husband, Benny, of Tonkawa; five step children with his marriage with Elsie, Juliann Bartlett and her husband, Johnny, of Alva, Janice Mathis and her husband, David, of Cherokee, Jeff Barr and his wife, Janette, of Mount Vernon, Iowa, Joyce Stebens and her husband, Darren, of Alva, and Jill Glasse and her husband, Robert, of Wichita, Kansas.
Also surviving are three brothers, Bill Rodgers and his wife, Violet, of Sallisaw, Clifford Rodgers of Antlers, and John Rodgers of Gore; three sisters, Jackie Rodgers of New Jersey, Ellen Muir of New Jersey, and Lucy Sapphore and her husband, Dan, of Pennsylvania; four grandchildren, Connie Hofer of Alva, Wayne Hofer and his wife, Donna, of Alva, Jim-Jim Hofer of Alva, and Anthony Ginder of Tonkawa; 14 other grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; 2 great great grandchildren; other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, June 12, 2004, at Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Hartsell Johnson officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.
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