Floyd Rogers

Floyd F. Rogers, 90, formerly of Sun City passed away January 23, 2017 in Prescott, AZ. Floyd was born on a farm in southeast Kansas, grew up on a farm with his parents Oscar E. Rogers and Lulu Jacobs Rogers. The sixth child of a total of seven (4 girls and three boys). Graduated from Field Kindley Memorial High School in Coffeyville, KS in 1944 and then drafted for WWII into the US Navy. He was sent to Great Lakes, IL for boot camp and then sent to Madison, WI to Radio School for training to be a radio operator. While there, the atomic bomb was dropped in Japan and ended the war shortly after. He was then sent to a temporary camp in Shoemaker, CA in the radio shack in the federal building. From there he was shipped to Norman, OK for an honorable discharge before returning to living with his parents near Coffeyville, KS. Floyd was married to Lucille Gerstenkorn and was blessed with three children, Linda L. Rogers Kick, Stan Rogers and Kathryn A. Rogers Lee. That marriage was dissolved in 1974 and he then married Marie I. Dewey in Sept. of 1974 and Floyd became step-father to her three children from a previous marriage, John E. Ballhorst, Linda Wells and Rick Ballhorst. Marie and the children survive Floyd. Floyd worked for the Kansas Farm Bureau Insurance Company retiring in 1991. He and Marie resided in Great Bend, KS 1996-2010 prior to moving to the retirement community of Sun City, where he was an avid golfer and she enjoyed playing bridge at the recreation centers. Visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. with a funeral service at 11:00 a.m., Monday, January 30, 2017 at First Christian Church of Sun City, 14001 N. Thunderbird Blvd., Sun City, AZ 85351. Interment to follow at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. Floral tributes or memorial donations in Floyd’s memory may be made to the First Christian Church of Sun City.