BEATRICE EARHART

Funeral services for Beatrice (Rogers) Earhart were held in New Port Richey, Florida, on Monday, March 12, 1979. Beatrice passed away suddenly at her home at the age of 74.

Beatrice G. was born in Manning on July 22, 1905, the daughter of Charles H. Rogers and Anna (McDonald) Rogers.

She finished school with the class of 1924. She worked in Manning Creamery Company in the butter department and the offices for a number of years under the management of Jake Bruck. She went on to Actinometry School at Des Moines in 1931 and was employed with Beatrice Creamery Co. & Shell Oil Co. in Des Moines for a number of years.

She passed Civil Service at Des Moines and went to Washington D.C. and was with the Treasury Department and was then transferred to Chicago, Illinois, where she worked in the office of the treasury department and lost bond department, until her retirement at the age of 62.

She and her husband retired at the same time in 1968. They purchased a home in New Port Richey, Florida, where they have resided the past eleven years.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Beatrice is survived by her husband, Charles H. Earhart; one brother, Charles M. Rogers of Des Moines, Iowa; one sister, Verna L. McCaffery of Manilla; one nephew, Patrick J. McCaffery of Charter Oak; a grand nephew, Daniel P. McCaffery, and grand-niece, Lisa A. McCaffery of Charter Oak.