In Memory

Jerry Rogers



 
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09/08/10 07:20 PM #1    

Larry Russell

Jerry was always pleasant to be around and never let his accomplishments go to his head.  I knew him from junior high, but never got to spend a lot of time with him until the summer right after high school.  We were on the same Heldenfels ditch digging crew then and would go out to lunch together. 

Later, after college, he came to Houston and we ran into each other a few times there.  He had studied engineering at A&M and then (as I recall) became a patent attorney at Dresser.  Patent attorneys are invariably quite astute. 

I'm sorry that I didn't we didn't get more time to get to know each other better.  It was a real shame to lose him so young.  He was a good 'un!


10/09/10 10:51 AM #2    

Janice Friedman (Edison)

Dear sweet Jerry, How I miss you....  from highschool days to the years in Houston.  From time spent with your parents, who I adored, to the last week of your life,  I miss all of you.  I know the children are now grown and I hope somehow they read this so they will know how much their dad meant to all of us.  There was no better man than you.  I want them to know that.  Your suffering is over, Rest in Peace dear friend and smile down on all of us who remember you.  Janice


06/26/12 09:06 AM #3    

Kathryn Harrington (Willbanks)

This an off the wall memory which has been in my mind for many years, and I still smile when it is processed by my brain cells.  In junior high and high school Jerry was a real important, hard working, good-looking, charismatic young man---especially to impressionable young ladies who were looking for a dream.  

One night some older female friends and I were driving around in the neighborhood.  I began telling them about the crush I had on Jerry.  So they drove by his house about midnight and honked their horn.   Naturally I dove for the floorboard in great embarrassment and excitement, while the other girls were laughing until they cried.  It was a nothing event that just brings a smile to my face from time to time.

One of the greatest losses we experience is not knowing the personalities and interactions that each person has had.  Geneology gives us names but not "who  they were."  Posted in friendship


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