Rev. John L. Rogers
The Rev. John Langdon Rogers, retired Presbyterian minister of Rt. 1, Arden, died at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in the VA Medical Center after an extended illness.
He was born in Buckingham County, Va., Aug. 1, 1886, son of the late John Thorton and Mildred Mosely Rogers.
He received his A.B. Degree from Hampden Sydney College and was principal of a high school in Virginia for two years. He then received his B.D. (Bachelor of Divinity) from Union Theilogical Seminary in Richmond, Va., and later served churches in West Virginia and Virginia from 1913 to 1917.
He was a veteran of World War I, serving in the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1919. He came to Martinsburg in February of 1919 and served as pastor of Tuscarora, Tablers and Shanghai churches until retiring in 1956. He served as supply pastor until August of 1957. He was a member of the Masonic Bodies.
His wife, the former Lillian Karnes, a former teacher at Winchester Avenue School, survives at home.
Other survivors include one niece, Mrs. Malcolm Sadler, Buckingham; two nephews, Samuel Glover, Farmville, Va., and Thorton Glover, Greenboro, N.C.
The last of his immediate family, he was preceded in death by two brothers and three sisters.
Services will be conducted Fridayat 1 p.m. at Tuscarora Presbyterian Church by the Rev. William H. Jarrett, with interment in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the Brown Funeral Home this evening from 7 to 9. The casket will be moved to the church at 12:30 p.m. Friday.
The family suggests that memorial remembrances take the form of contributions to the Tuscarora and Tablers churches or to the charity of the donor's choice.