Donald Rogers

Donald Earl Rogers was born on November 14, 1942, in Manes, Missouri, to Henry Claude and Surilda A. (Baty) Rogers. Donald passed away peacefully at his home in Hartville, Missouri on March 24, 2025.

For several years, Donald owned a gas station in Lebanon, Missouri, and also worked for a telephone company and helped to put the lines in for Manes, Missouri. Donald had a variety of other jobs, but his favorite career was as a logger. He had a contract working in the Mark Twain National Forest. He loved the time he spent out in the fresh air and even though the job was dangerous he knew exactly how to safely handle any tree.

In his spare time, Donald loved spending time with his kids and being out in nature. If you could combine family and outdoors those were some of the best times, especially when fishing and hunting.

Besides his parents, Donald was preceded in death by his son, Timothy Allen Rogers; three brothers, Joe Rogers, Ralph Rogers, and Lonnie Rogers; two sisters, Barbara Ann Baty, and Juanita Willhite.

He is survived by two sons, Howard Rogers, and wife, Marsha, of Osceola, Missouri, and Donald Wayne Rogers of Phillipsburg, Missouri; two daughters, Ruby Busch, of Lebanon, Missouri, and Carolyn Shoemaker, and husband, Hugh, of Mendenhall, Mississippi, grandson, Mark Rogers and his wife, Abigail Brengle, of Hartville, Missouri, as well as many more grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, and many other family and friends that will miss him.

The family has requested that memorial contributions be made to Green Mountain Cemetery c/o Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home. Please make checks out to Green Mountain Cemetery.