ELOISE ROGERS

SIKESTON -- Funeral for Helen Eloise Rogers of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. Dr. Tom Bass will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

Rogers, 81, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, from injuries received in an automobile accident.

She was born June 22, 1917, at Lilbourn, daughter of Brooks and Fannie Bell Arnett. She and Ralph K. Rogers were married July 12, 1936, in Piggott, Ark. He died Nov. 30, 1983.

Rogers retired as a salesclerk at Cumbee's Fabrics. She attended Murray Lane Baptist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Irene Sailing and Carolyn Rogers of Sikeston; a sister, Lucille Miller of Sikeston; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother, two sisters, and a half brother.