Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, August 23, 1993 TAG: 9308230179
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Medium
OBIT ROGERS, MARTHA MARIE MILLER
ROGERS, Martha Marie Miller, of Blacksburg, passed away August 21, 1993.
She departed Blacksburg for a new life on Saturday. She entered this world in
Ohio City, Van Wert County, in northwestern Ohio, July 22, 1917, a daughter of
the late Daisy Florence Dull and Shirley Miller; and sister of the late Paul
Monroe Miller. She graduated from Liberty Township High School in Ohio City
and the Lima (Ohio) Memorial Hospital School of Nursing with graduate study in
public health at the University of Michigan. She was employed by the Ohio
Public Health Service in Troy, Ohio. During World War II, she served on active
duty in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps with duty stations at the Jacksonville
(Florida) Naval Air Station and in Washington, D.C. Following World War II,
she was a staff nurse at the University of Florida (Gainesville) Infirmary.
During a twenty-year residency on the West Point (New York) Military
Reservation, she provided leadership and served the American Red Cross, the
Girl Scouts, and numerous volunteer service activities of the hospital and
chapels. She continued her volunteer service in Blacksburg, working with the
New River Valley Free Clinic, Volunteer Action of the New River Valley,
American Red Cross, and the Interfaith Food Pantry. She was an active and
faithful member of the Blacksburg United Methodist Church. Martha was much
loved and will be greatly missed by her devoted husband, William B. Rogers;
her three children and their spouses, Paul B. and Mary L. Rogers, Hilton Head,
S.C., M. Ann and Andrew J. Kenley, Summerfield, Fla., and Mary R. and William
(Mack) Brown, Raleigh, N.C.; her four grandchildren, Andrew W. and Allison Ann
Kenley, and Leah R. and William McKinney Brown IV; her sister-in-law, Georgia
S. Miller, Van Wert, Ohio; and a host of friends throughout the world. Friends
are invited to a memorial service at the Blacksburg United Methodist Church at
2 p.m. August 25, 1993, with the pastor, the Rev. Herbert Hobbs officiating. A
private interment will be in Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg. In lieu of
flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to the Blacksburg United Methodist
Church, P.O. Box 931, Blacksburg, Va. 24063. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral
Home.
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