Anne Rogers

1936 - 2024

Rogers, Anne (Lapey)

Jun 1, 1936 - Sep 12, 2024

A fixture on Clarendon Place for nearly six decades, Anne died on September 12 after a years-long struggle with Parkinson's disease with dementia. She was 88. Born Anne Brooks Lapey in Buffalo in 1936, the oldest child of Paul White Lapey and Elisabeth Walton Allen Lapey, she grew up on Highland Avenue and attended the School of Practice, Buffalo Seminary and Bradford Junior College. After college, she studied at Reid Hall in Paris, followed by a stint working for Pan American Airways in New York City. Returning to Buffalo, she met and married Charles Pingrey "Chuck" Rogers II, a business executive, in 1958. They started a family while living in Kenmore, then moved to Clarendon Place in 1960 where she would remain for 58 years. Her husband died in 2000. Early in her marriage, Anne served on the Women's Board of Buffalo Children's Hospital, and as a board member of the Maria M. Love Convalescent Fund. Beginning in 1969, she summered with her family for the next 40 years in Thunder Bay Colony, a tennis community near Ridgeway, Ont., where she had spent summers as a girl. Naturally meticulous, she worked as a bookkeeper at the Brownrout Fish Market on Elmwood Avenue and at The Floristry on Delaware Avenue, noting with trademark wit that exchanging fish for flowers meant she "no longer smelled like a mackerel." Later, she sold clothing for the Doncaster and Carlisle Collections, welcoming customers to the fabled blue wool carpet of her well-appointed living room. Anne was a former member of the Buffalo Tennis & Squash Club, the Garret Club, and the Saturn Club. She moved to Canterbury Woods Gates Circle in 2018, and at the end of her life resided at Canterbury's Oxford Village in Williamsville. She is survived by her three children, John Frederick Rogers (Eileen Lawton), of Cazenovia; Charles Pingrey Rogers III (Kimberly McEvoy), of Buffalo; Elisabeth Walton Allen Lawrence (Jacob Lawrence), of Denver; five grandchildren; a brother, Allen Lapey, of Milton, MA; and a sister, Clare Lapey Holtan, of Mercer Island, WA. Anne was enrolled in the Anatomical Gift Program of the University of Buffalo Medical School. Burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery will be private.