1946-2023

A visitation for Ann Rogers will be held on June 27 at 10 a.m. with an 11 a.m. memorial to follow at the First United Methodist Church, Canton. Mary Ann Koerth Rogers, 76, passed from this life on May 5. She was born Oct. 25, 1946, to Alexander and Dorothy Blackburn Koerth in Port Arthur.

Ann graduated from high school at Thomas Jefferson in Port Arthur in 1965. After graduation, she attended SFA in Nacogdoches where she was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority and earned a B.A. degree in education. In 1970, she moved to Houston to begin her teaching career.

In June 1970, she married Larry Ellis Rogers of Canton. During Larry’s tenure with Mobil Pipeline, they lived in various Texas towns before moving to Michigan where their only daughter, Kimberley, was born. They were then transferred overseas, living in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia before moving back to Canton in 1983.

Ann began teaching again in 1984 with the Canton Independent School District. She taught fourth grade for 26 years. They became members of First United Methodist Church where she also taught Sunday school. Ann retired from CISD in 2010. She loved to read, travel, worked the NY Times crossword puzzle, cook, and garden.

She is preceded in death by her parents, brother, Kent Koerth and niece, Bobbi Rogers.

Ann is survived by her husband of 53 years, Larry; daughter Kimberley, brother-in-law and wife; Danny and Kay Rogers, sister-in-law Jane Koerth, nephews Craig Rogers and Clay Koerth, nieces Kristie Koerth Vannett, Margaret Rogers Smith and Melanie Rogers McClung.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests you donate to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Bobbi Rogers 4-H Scholarship fund.