Thomas Luther Rogers (1927 - 2017)

Born 11 Dec 1927 in Sumter, Sumter County, S.C.

Ancestors

Died 9 Jan 2017 at age 89 in Sumter, Sumter County, S.C.

Biography

Luke was born in 1927 and passed away in 2017.

• Thomas Luther “Luke” Rogers, 89, husband of Mary Helen Ouzts Rogers, died Monday, January 9, 2017 at Covenant Place.

Born December 11, 1927 at Britton Station, he was the son of the late Ernest B. Rogers and Bessie Luther Rogers.

He was educated at Brogdon School, Edmunds High and Clemson A&M College. He served in Korea with the 958th Ordnance. He retired from Sumter County after 36 years of service; 17 as Public Works Director and then worked part-time for Newman Construction of Sumter. He was a devoted husband, father and community servant.

He was formerly Chairman of the Sumter County Transportation Committee. He previously served as Chairman and is presently serving on the Salvation Army Advisory Board; was a past member of the Kiwanis Club, is a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Roads End; past member and past President of the Trian Club; and past board member of the YMCA; presently a member of First Baptist Church having served on the Grounds Committee, the Building Maintenance Committee and is a member of the Baraca Sunday School Class. He was chosen as Man of the Year in 1990 by the Chamber of Commerce.

He was predeceased by a brother, Ernest Rogers and a sister, Anne Gambrell.

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 September 2019), memorial page for Thomas Luther “Luke” Rogers, Sr (11 Dec 1927–9 Jan 2017), Find A Grave Memorial no. 175181183, citing Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Remember me (contributor 47418257) .
• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8BN-C8J : 5 December 2014), Thomas Luther Rogers, enlisted 24 Apr 1946, Ft Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KBS5-152 : 23 May 2014), Thomas T Rogers, Residence, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.