Salt Lake Tribune, 05/10/06




WASHINGTON TERRACE - Fern Stephens Rogers, 80, returned home to her Heavenly Father on Monday, May 8, 2006 of complications from a one vehicle car accident. She was born August 6, 1925 in Montpelier, Idaho, a daughter of William Myrl Stephens and Freda Gortcinsky Stephens. Fern was raised and educated in Montpelier Idaho, graduating from Montpelier High School. She also attended LDS Business College in Salt Lake City. After college and during World War II she worked at the Gallena Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, and Camp Cooke Army base in California. 

She married Harold P. Rogers on August 30, 1946, in Montpelier, Idaho. She moved to Ogden, Utah in 1948. She took a job at the Ogden Arsenal and when it closed she went to work for the Bureau of Reclamation. She later worked for the Internal Revenue Service and retired from there December 1986, after working 30 years of combined federal service. She was a member of many clubs: The Ogden Business and Professional Women's Club, Federal Women's Club, American Business Women's Club, the Daughter of Pioneers and Women's Legislative Council of Weber County. She enjoyed the friends she met through working and through these clubs. They brought a lot of happiness and fulfillment to her life. She has four wonderful grandchildren and one great grandchild and they were the joy of her life. She was so proud of each and every one of them. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Washington Terrace 4th Ward. Fern will be greatly missed by her family and friends. She is survived by one son, Terrance Wayne (Dena) Rogers and their two children Morgan Jo (Mike) Simonson and Sydney Kate Rogers, one daughter Jill (Kelly) Yates-Newman and former son-in-law Randy Yates and their two children Cody (Jacci) Yates and Candace Yates, and one great-grandchild Brynlie Jensyn Yates. 

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Lindquist's Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Interment, Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.