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Thomas Rodgers Obituary
Graveside Services will be held Tuesday, December 30, 2008, at 11 a.m. in Turkey Ridge Cemetery. All Hunters who are attending the graveside service are encouraged to wear camouflage.
Mr. Rodgers was a native of Fredricksburg, Va. He was the son of the late Thomas E. Rodgers and Mrs. Lottie Samuels Rodgers. He was the founder of the National Wild Turkey Federation and was the retired host of The Everyday Sportsman.
Survivors include his mother, one son, Mark Rodgers, Marietta, Ga.; two sisters, Barbara Broaddus and Melody Borneman, both of Fredricksburg, Va.
The family is at the home and will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the home of Judy Pendarvis on Rabbit Trail in Edgefield.
Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Bill Baab
December 28, 2008
To Mark and Family: So sorry to hear of Tom's death. My wife and I enjoyed the ceremony honoring him at the Wild Turkey Center a few months ago. Tom was a genius at organization and was years ahead of his time when he founded the NWTF with the help of game biologist Vernon Bevill and Sam Crouch Sr., among others, in Edgefield. He also founded Smallmouth Inc., after leaving the NWTF. He was going to set up the International Quail Foundation, but Jerry Allen beat him to it with Quail Unlimited.
Tom enjoyed fishing as well as hunting and he and I spent time together catching hybrids and largemouth bass on Clarks Hill Lake.
He was so proud of you, Mark. Your Mom, Jennie, must not be forgotten because of her wholehearted support during good times and bad as the NWTF was growing up. Her premature death was a shock to us all, but I like to think that now they're together again in a better place. Sincerely, Bill Baab, Outdoor Editor (retired), The Augusta Chronicle
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