Homer A. Rogers; 60-Year County Resident

Sixty-year Ventura County resident and oil refinery worker Homer A. Rogers has died after a lengthy illness. He was 88.

Rogers, who died Thursday, was born April 13, 1910, in Decaturville, Mo. He moved to Oxnard in 1938 after living in Los Angeles for a short time, said Rogers’ daughter, Clora Royval.

Rogers arrived in Oxnard on the back of a truck that was delivering building materials for the construction of a refinery. He soon got a job helping to build Edgington-Oxnard Oil Refinery, where he worked for 37 years until his retirement in 1977, his daughter said,

For many years, Rogers and his wife lived in the community of Foster Park north of Ventura until the couple’s house was torn down to make room for California 33, Rogers’ daughter said.

In 1964, Rogers and his wife moved to a home on Ventura Avenue in Ventura, where he lived until his death. Ventura Avenue residents may remember Rogers as the man who wore a light gray hat when he walked his cocoa-colored pet poodle every day.

Rogers was a longtime member of the Moose Lodge in Ventura and enjoyed volunteering at the Ventura Avenue Adult Senior Center, where he often ate his meals, his daughter said. He also enjoyed fishing at Casitas and Bass lakes.

Rogers is survived by his wife of 58 years, Jeanne Louise Rogers of Ventura; his son, James Clinton Rogers of Klamath Falls, Ore.; his daughter, Clora Royval of Tucson, Ariz.; a brother, Donald Rogers of Lebanon, Mo.; three sisters, Lucille Breedlove and Sybil Agan, both of Lebanon, Mo., and Martha Lee of Tulsa, Okla.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Visitation is planned from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home in Ventura with a vigil service at 4:30 p.m.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home. Msgr. Patrick O’Brien will officiate. Interment will follow at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a donation be made to a favorite charity in Rogers’ name.