Charlotte Mae Rogers

Charlotte Mae “Lottie” Odell Rogers, passed away on March 29, 2014 after gleefully celebrating her 100th birthday last May. Celebration of life service will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday at Trinity United Methodist Church, Gollaher Chapel. Reverend Bob Rhodes will officiate. Burial will follow in Holbrook Cemetery at 3:00 p.m. A gathering of family and friends will be from 9:30 until service time. All Faiths Funeral Home is serving the family. Lottie was born May 18, 1913 at Laird, CO, to Charles and Mary (Neel) Odell. She is survived by her sister, Hannah Hageman of McCook; and daughters, Linda Beranek of Ft. Worth, TX and Linna Dee Donaldson of Grand Island. Those also left to cherish her memory include her grandchildren, Kyle Beranek of Marathon, TX, Adam Donaldson of Mt. Vernon, MO, and Emily Donaldson of Grand Island; and great-grandchildren, Marissa, Austin, and Titus Beranek, Kaleb Donaldson and Torrin Donaldson. As an infant she traveled with her family in a covered wagon to the Holbrook, NE, area where she spent the next ninety years of her life. Lottie attended school in Holbrook. When she was a senior in high school her family moved to Cambridge, but determined to graduate, she remained in Holbrook and boarded with families who took her in. Lottie had always wanted to be a teacher, so as soon as she graduated, she made plans to attend normal training at Kearney State Teacher’s College. She spent two summers there taking classes and having a lot of fun. As a result of her determination to be a teacher, she spent ten years teaching in country schools south and north of Holbrook. Until the end of her life, she still got cards, letters, emails, phone calls and gifts from her “kids” who she had taught more than seventy years before. On August 27, 1938, Lottie married her high school sweetheart and the love of her life, Leland Rogers. They married secretly during teacher’s convention in Curtis, NE, and celebrated seventy years together. Of this marriage, Lottie would always say that she and Leland had a lot of fun together and her life was very blessed. In 1944, Leland and Lottie lost a stillborn daughter. Three years later they were blessed with twin daughters, Linda Diane and Linna Dee. They devoted their time and energy to attending all of their girls activities and events, which continued throughout their lives. Leland and Lottie farmed north of Holbrook until they retired and moved to Arapahoe. During those years Lottie was active in the Methodist Church, 4-H and Extension Club. She was a wonderful cook, baker, seamstress and quilter. She was an oil painter and especially loved painting barn scenes. Lottie also worked for a time as an assistant in the post office and a substitute teacher. She was an avid Husker football and volleyball fan. In 2005 Leland and Lottie moved next door to Linna Dee in Grand Island, where for the first time she was addressed as Charlotte, and she grew to love that. Leland passed away in December, 2008. Lottie moved to Primrose Retirement Community in Grand Island in 2010 where she had wonderful care and made new friends. Memorials are suggested to Arapahoe Senior Center or Grand Island Education Foundation. Lottie considered her life a blessing; she was especially appreciative of her loving family and long marriage, her teaching career and the chance to celebrate her 100th birthday. Gifts to these organizations will honor her blessed life.

Charlotte Mae Rogers

May 18, 1913 - March 29, 2014

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May 18, 1913 - March 29, 2014

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