Mrs. Natalie Stevens Rogers

Natalie Stevens Rogers, 91, formerly of Winston-Salem, NC, Blairs and Danville VA, Hartsville, SC, Roswell GA, and Tampa, FL, passed away on February 28th at Trinity Oaks in Salisbury, NC, after a long illness. She was a loving wife, devoted mother and grandmother, and compassionate friend. The family will receive condolences from 1:00 pm to 2 pm on Saturday, March 21, at the Comfort Inn at 100 Tower Drive in Danville, VA. A grave side and burial service will be conducted by Julian Griffin at 2:30 pm on March 21, at the Rogers Family Plot (#192, Section 2) in Highland Burial Park in Danville. A native of Bangor, Maine, Natalie was born Marion Natalie Stevens on June 22, 1923, to the late Homer Weston Stevens and Marion Grey Stevens. She graduated from the University of Maine with a BA in Psychology and a Nursing Degree. She served in the United States Army Nurses Corp during World War II, at Fort Devens, MA, where she met her husband, Bryan Jones Rogers from Blairs, VA. She was a nursing instructor and assistant director of the School of Nursing at Danville Memorial Hospital. She was also a medical-surgical nurse and nursing instructor at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem NC, and taught biology, chemistry and physics at Spring Garden High School, VA, and biology at North Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, NC. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bryan, her sister Audrey, and her brother, Glenn. She leaves behind four daughters, Nora Lea Reefe and her husband Ed, of Boca Grande, FL and Linville, NC; Kate Smith and her husband Frasier, of Marietta, GA; Betsy Young and her husband Greg, of New London, NC, and Susan Kelley and her husband Randy of Winnsboro, SC, and one son, Bryan Stuart Rogers and his wife Cheryl of Windermere FL; eight grandchildren, Donna Reefe Childress and her husband Jeff Childress of Salisbury, NC; Katie Reefe of Salisbury, NC; Brooke Young Childress and her husband Paul Childress of Concord, NC; Taryn Smith Shultz and her husband Jud, from New York, NY; Jamie Kelley of Taylors, SC; Bryan Kelley and his wife Sarah of Greenville, SC; Bryan Rogers of Maitland, FL, and Steven Rogers of Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany; and eight great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Trinity Oaks, 728 Klumac Rd in Salisbury, NC 28144, or to the charity of your choice.

Mrs. Natalie Stevens Rogers

June 22, 1923 - February 28, 2015