SHARON ROGERS

SHARON ALICE ROGERS

July 19, 1937 – September 20, 2025

Sharon Carson Rogers, age 88, closed her eyes to this world and opened them to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Sept. 20, 2025 at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, WI.

Sharon was born on July 19, 1937 in Pendleton, Oregon where her father was an officer with the Pendleton Police Department. Later moving to Washougal, Washington, where they had small dairy, her family then moved to Hanford, CA in the 1940s when after experiencing health issues, the doctor told her parents to move her to a warmer climate. The family bought a farm on Road 48 where Sharon enjoyed being a student at Delta View Elementary School. Sharon was involved in the Delta View 4 H raising animals. She attended Grace Lutheran Church in Visalia with her family where she was confirmed. Sharon loved growing up in the country on the farm. She would walk home from school and stop at the old store and gas station "Kesslers" on Highway 198 and charge a soda and candy to her father's account. Sharon attended Hanford High School graduating in 1955. She had been senior class secretary and was involved with Job's Daughters International. Sharon spent many enjoyable summers with friends at Camp Redwood on Sequoia Lake. She attended College of the Sequoias but due to the excellent vocational training at Hanford High, was able to get a job as a secretary at the Caminol Refinery (Later Beacon Oil).

Sharon was adept at taking shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping. After high school, Sharon and her family began attending Glad Tidings Church in Hanford. There she met her future husband and the family butcher, Vernon Rogers. Marrying in 1957, they established one of the first houses on Rodgers Rd. Sharon worked at the family business, Rogers Meats, while raising her two sons. After the meat market was sold in 1969, Sharon and her husband began the Kings Outreach, which in the following years had four Christian coffee houses, a Bible bookstore, a thrift store, a girls group home, and a boys group home. Later the King's Outreach started a boy's ranch on 14th Ave and Kansas where Sharon worked as a secretary and bookkeeper.

In 1974 Sharon's family moved to Hamilton, Montana where her husband worked for Shiloh Christian Retreat. It was a great time for the family as life was slow and simple. They returned to Hanford and their work with the King's Outreach. When her husband retired, Sharon continued working as a bookkeeper at Tri County Gas Company. She spent the last 9 years of her career as the school secretary at Hanford Christian School where she loved interacting with the kids, staff, parents, and especially her granddaughter Sarah, who was a student.

Sharon enjoyed many trips and Christmas holidays in Sisters, Oregon with her son David and his family. She was a very devoted member of Glad Tidings Church for a majority of her life and loved and lived the word of God. In 2024 after her son Michael had moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, Sharon sold her home of 67 years and moved with him there. Her life was more limited, but she continued to text and call her friends back home. She attended New Life Assembly of God Church. Sharon had a deep love for the Lord. She read her Bible and prayed multiple times each day, and knew her scripture. Her faith was passed down to her sons.

In her later years she enjoyed simple things - watching the squirrels, wild turkeys, and even deer in her yard, playing games with her family, and spending as much time as possible with her great granddaughter Juliana and her beloved Poodle, Pierre.

Sharon was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years Rev. Vernon Rogers, her parents Clarence and Elsie Carson, her sister and her husband Fayma and Joe Barba, and her brother and his wife Clarence Jr. and Doris Carson.

Sharon is survived by her son David, his wife Rhonda, and his children Dallas, Alexi, and Carson Rogers all of Oregon, her son Michael Rogers Xiong, his children Sarah (Nathan) Cable, Joseph St. Leger Rogers (Arielle Luevano), their mother Jeanne Bloemhof Garces, and her precious great-granddaughter Juliana Cable. She is further survived by a niece Janet (Louis) Giacomazzi, nephew Randy (Sheryl) Carson of Hanford, nephew Victor (Karen) Newquist of Atlanta Georgia, Ronnie (Nettie) Newquist of Tulare, two sisters in-law Marlene Hill of Hanford, and Glenda Welty of Watsonville along with many Rogers nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be held on Friday, Oct. 17 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hanford Cemetery.

Remembrances can be made the following address: Michael Xiong 4026 Mackinac Dr. Janesville, WI 53546

Donations can be mailed to Provision Ministries International P.O. Box 1233 Bend, Oregon 97709 (or submitted electronically at www.provisionministries.com

Family and Friends are invited to view Sharons legacy at www.peoplesfuneralchapel.com and write condolences.

Services by People's Funeral Chapel

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