Anne Wynne Rogg

Anne Wynne (Barringer) Rogg died peacefully on January 30, 2026. She was surrounded by family, sitting in her favorite chair at her home in New Milford, Connecticut. She was 88 years old.

Wynne was born on September 5, 1937 in New Canaan Connecticut, and moved to New Milford when she was four. Her parents, Benjamin Lang Barringer and Anne Allen Barringer, farmed first dairy and then beef cattle on their farm on Route 7 on the Brookfield line. As a testament to how much New Milford has changed in the ensuing years, Wynne helped drive the dairy herd across Route 7 twice each day, causing only minor inconvenience to the occasional car that might come up the highway.

She attended New Milford schools, and then, like her parents and grandparents before her, Cornell University. She first met her husband Oskar, who had just immigrated from Germany, when she was 15 and he was 23. (It remains a source of amazement and amusement within the family that her mother allowed a fifteen year old to date somebody eight years her senior, albeit insisting on a chaperone.) When Oskar fortuitously also attended Cornell on the GI Bill, the romance was rekindled in their senior year, and, armed with degrees in English and Mechanical Engineering respectively, they began their life together in 1959.

Shortly thereafter, they founded Rogg Manufacturing Corp. She balanced her role as Treasurer with raising five children - Oskar, William, Martha (Saleski), Elizabeth (Ives) and Jennifer (Eisenstadt.)

As with Cornell, Wynne also followed her family’s tradition of public service, spending 26 years as a member of the New Milford Board of Education, She was secretly proud that in several elections she got more votes than any other candidate on the ballot.

In 1968, her parents decided that New Milford’s rapid growth was making farming untenable, and moved to Southwestern Virginia. Oskar and Wynne moved into her childhood home, the John Glover Noble house built in the 1820s and described in the 1930s by Edna Ferber as "the most beautiful in America" in her novel "An American Beauty.”

They lived there until 1997, when they also felt the pull of Southwestern Virginia and moved to their cattle farm in Wytheville. Wynne loved the people and the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, but was probably always a Connecticut Yankee at heart. Several years after Oskar died in 2008, she moved back to New Milford to be closer to her children, living just off the Green until her death.

After her children were grown, Wynne began to write more actively. She was particularly proud that her children's book, The Adventures of Boreas the Bear, as well as several collections of poetry, Into the Valley and Wild Strawberries, could be found on Amazon and had Library of Congress numbers. Shameless posthumous plug: if you read aloud to your young children, Boreas the Bear is rather good.

She was also proud of her five children and their spouses, her twelve grandchildren and her three great grandchildren. As she grew older and experienced the typical reduced flow of tidbits to talk about, she would diligently query each of her offspring for news of their children’s victories and exploits and then reliably share this information throughout the rest of the extended family.

There will be a Celebration of Life at the Virginia farm in June. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you rise each morning to savor the beauty of the world around you, spend each day marveling at the endless possibilities put before you, and labor into the evening on tasks like maintaining relationships, rekindling friendships and encouraging the least and the greatest among us. She would like that.