Richard Wayne Rogers

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN - Richard W. Rogers, 74, formerly of Mayetta; died at his home in Marshfield, WI, Sunday, January 22, 2017.  He was born  November 7, 1942, the son of Wayne and Marion (Scheib) Rogers. 

A public viewing will be at 10:00 AM, Monday, January 30, 2017, at the Zeiner Funeral Home-Herington Chapel.  Military committal services will follow at the  Sunset Hill Cemetery, Herington, Kansas.

Richard graduated from Marshfield High School with the class of 1961.  He served in the United States Army from 1963 to 1971.    He was an outdoorsman who liked to hunt and go fishing with his friends.  He enjoyed woodworking and playing cribbage.  He took several motorcycle trips with his wife and friends and traveled through eight states.  Richard and Mary lived in Kansas and New Mexico.  While in New Mexico he served on the Honor Guard for four years.  He worked as an over the road truck driver for several years.  During his years he traveled to forty-eight states and Canada.

He is preceded in death by his mom and daughter Sheila.

On September 18, 1982, he married Mary Newmann in Dancy, Wisconsin.  She survives of the home in Marshfield, Wisconsin.  He is also survived by his five children: Craig, Edwin, Kenneth, and Christopher (Sandy Ann) Rogers, and Tonya (James) Nieman, Jr.; eleven grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; a brother Wayne Rogers; a sister Jane (Ron) Nagel, and sister-in-law Karen (Ward) Newmann of Mayetta, Kansas.