Max Rogers

Max Clifford Rogers, 90, died Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at home in Bayfield, Colo. A Funeral Service will be Saturday, December 22, 2012, at 1:00 P.M. at the Bayfield Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bishop Bruce Edmonds will be officiating. Burial will follow at Pine River Cemetery in Bayfield. A viewing will be held at one hour prior to the services at the same church.

Mr. Rogers was born May 27, 1922, in Phoenix, Ariz., the son of Noble and Louie Rogers and he grew up in the Phoenix area as well as Snowflake, Ariz. He served in the Air Force during World War II. He was married to Frances L. Murphy on June 9, 1946, in Phoenix. He worked his way through college in animal husbandry at Arizona State University while raising his young family. Max owned a chicken ranch, drove dump/cement trucks and a school bus and raised quarter horses, among his many careers and retirement activities. The family moved to Bayfield, Colo. in 1990, settling in the “rock house” on C.R. 510.

He loved horses and ranching as well as gardening (especially tomato gardening). His south Bayfield ranch is known by the miniature horses commonly seen at the ranch. Max especially loved his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and family.

He is survived by his wife, Frances, of Bayfield; eight children: Nancy Rutan of Florida, Fla., Patty Smith and Margaret Chatham of Bayfield, Colo., Linda Price of Mesa, Ariz., Clifford Rogers of Denver, Colo., Joyce Parker of Bayfield, and Mary Wardell of Durango, Colo., and Harold Rogers of Keene, N.H.; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a grandson, Christopher Noble Rogers, and a great-grandson, Samuel Smith.