Rogers, Belle Shinn

Passed: 1959-01-24

Age: 73

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1959-01-29

Information: HEART ATTACK FATAL TO WELL KNOWN LADY - Mrs. Belle Shinn Rogers, wife of former Sheriff D. J. Rogers, died suddenly of a heart attack at her home in Ripley on Saturday morning.  She would have been 74 years of age on February 15 and she and her husband celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary three years ago. She was born February 15, 1885 at Fairplain and was a daughter of the late Senator R. P. Shinn and Artimitia Shamblen Shinn.  She was a member of the Evangelical United Brethren church in Ripley, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Rebekah Lodge.  She was an active worker in the church all her life.  She was known to most of her acquaintances simply as ""Belle"", and was a friend to everybody and everybody was her friend. She was widely known in the town, county and state and news of her death was a shock not only to members of her family, but hundreds of friends and acquaintances.      Survivors include her husband, D. J. Rogers; three sons, Robert of Charleston, Bernard of Dunbar and Raleigh of Ripley; one daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Hugelmeyer of Parkersburg; a brother, Boyd Shinn of Fairplain; and six grandchildren.  The funeral service was conducted from the EUB church here Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. Homer Hicks and Rev. Ralph Mahoney officiating and burial with the Vail undertakers in charge was in the Shinn cemetery at Fairplain.  The pallbearers were her nephews, William W. Shinn, Perry, Jackie, Lavelle, Burton and Harry Shinn and Lanier Lively.  The honorary pallbearers were:  Burton Crow, Oliver Kessel, C. E. Goodwin, R. E. Staats, Dr. R. C. Starcher, J. B. Vail, Clyde Wright, Tracy Starcher, Sattis Simmons, T. Clayton Parsons, James Robinson, P. E. O'Brien, Dr. J. H. Smith, Howard Kerwood, John Keenan, Delmer Good, King Parsons, R. R. Hyre, Ben Cadle, Rudolph Starcher, W. L. Evans, Glen Slaven, O'Dell Chancey, Mayor G. H. Duke, Preston Van Horn, Howard Hyre, O. P. Davis, W. F. Boggess, Dr. C. W. Vineyard, Dr. W. E. Casto, Charles Snaith, Dr. Oshel C. Staats, members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, members of the Women's Society for World Service of the Evangelical United Brethren church, members of the Aid Society at the Baptist Temple, and members of the Rebekah Lodge.