Van Buren, Arkansas. She had a large family with seven brothers and two
sisters. Her family moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the summer of 1936.
She and her brothers and sister picked cotton before they started school each
year; her father began working as a dairy farmer. Her youngest sister had died in
Arkansas.
Doris Rodgers was industrious and purchased her first camera with the
money she earned from picking cotton; in high school she worked evenings at a
soda fountain at the Army Air Force Base at Carlsbad. There she met an airman
training as a bombadier named Burton Rodgers. She had saved her money and
went to college at a Nazarene college then based in Pasadena, California, where
she and Burton Rodgers were married on January 15, 1946. They worked hard
on their jobs, invested their money, built their home and apartments in
Montebello, California; my mother worked as a teacher’s aide for many years
and died in her home to which her family had moved in Whittier, California.
While still living in Carlsbad, my mother and her friend Lavinia attended a
Baptist summer camp where they both prayed to receive Christ. Following the
Lord her entire life, she became a living example of Proverbs 31:30, “Charm is
deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be
praised.”
She went Home to be with the Lord on October 16, 2020. She is survived
by two brothers, many nieces and nephews, three adult children, four
grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and one great-great granddaughter.
