Julia M. Rogers, 88, formerly of North Webster, died April 6, 2012, in Heritage Woods Assisted Living, Batavia, Ill.
She was born Sept. 11, 1923, in Hartford City, to Edwin and Sarah Ellen Ella Townsend Overmyer. In 1946, in Indianapolis, she married Del L. Rogers, who preceded her in death.
She was a 1941 graduate of Hartford City High School. During World War II she worked for the Army Ordnance. She later worked at Indiana Glass, Dunkirk, where she worked as a decorative painter. She was a life member of the American Legion Auxiliary Herbert Kuhn Post 253, North Webster. In 1989 she moved to Gainesville, Fla., and toward the end of her life moved to Illinois.
Surviving are two daughters, Christine (and spouse Daniel) O’Brien, Aurora, Ill., and Susan (and spouse James) Pickett, Gainesville; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by a daughter, a brother and a sister.
Services will be private and burial will take place in Hartford City. ***** Donations may be made to the Blackford County Civil War Re-Enactment Club Inc., 221 Woodland Drive, Hartford City, IN 47348; or to the American Legion’s Operation Comfort Warriors at www.legion.org/troops/operationcomfort
