Christopher Rogers

"Chris, 

The good memories I have of you is back when life together seemed so easy, normal, family oriented, un-complicated, and those are the memories I am going to hold onto.  We go back many years that included a lot of time spent with a lot of people, family and friends who we all share good memories.  The good memories that I hold of you included the years we were friends to when we got married and had our beautiful daughter, who gave us so much joy!  I remember how good of a father you were to her and my older kids, especially Angie, you treated her like a real daughter and never as a stepdaughter. We lived in a brand-new house that so many memories were made with our kids and your and mine’s families.  I remember all the times you would come home from work and go straight to your garden, Jenny was always  right alongside you pulling weeds, picking vegetables, she would fill her little red wagon and you are her would go to the neighbors sharing those vegetables, your garden started out at the back of the property line and ended up way down to the creek line, I remember us hosting the family holidays together having a lot of your family over and mine, the little cousins over and all the fun we had with them.  You were an awesome cook that my family still talks about, my mother still talks about how good you were to her when she came and stayed for a night or too, always bringing her coffee in the mornings to those homemade bacon egg cheese biscuits you would make for all of us and the older kids’ friends, you used to make homemade bread in the bread machine and Angie’s friend would walk from the other side of town to come have your homemade bread before school, I remember us taking in a few kids, friends of Angie’s who for reasons needed a place to stay for a while, I remember our house as being the hangout for Jenny’s little neighborhood friends, her little cousins,  and the 2 older kids friends, we always had kids at our house, especially at meal times ha   we fed so many people, we made them  good home cooked meals and we all ate very good.  I remember the yard being decorated for every holiday for Jennica, Halloween usually was a full yard scene that you helped Jenny decorate, I remember buying a new camper and how much time we spent with the kids down at Lake of the Ozarks, Fort Niangua the camp grounds my nephews owned, it was our home away from home, so many memories made there, The canoe rides we took Jenny and the kids on, I still float that river to this day but using rafts.  It is still talked about to this day, that ugly eagle your grandma Marge sent as a gag gift to you, you rewrapped it and gave it to my mom as a joke, then the next year she would rewrap it and give it back to you, made us all laugh!  I remember throwing Easter Egg Hunts for all Jenny’s little friends and her little cousins, and a separate Easter Hung with money In Eggs for the older kids and their friends, I remember you putting a eggs down in the creek line way up in the trees that had a $20 dollar bill in that one of Angies friend found and got stuck on a branch trying to get it and ripped his new Jeans,. I remember all whole inside of house being decorated and we had all Jenny’s soccer team and their parents over for a big Halloween party for the kids, I remember all the memories at your dad and Carols house, times spent Christmas Caroling with the kids in family, family holidays at your Dad and Carols,  I will never forget your dads butternut  squash casserole he always made at Thanksgiving time.   I remember Jenny making every one of us be quiet while she spread her blankets on the floor in the living room to make a stage while she performed and none of us dared made a sound, I remember you going to say something and she told you shhh, you reminded me awhile back of her Rat a Tat band she had with all her neighbor friends and her cousins, she loved to perform.  Oh, and all the cats we had, when she color coded necklaces for ALL of them, she loved her cats and kitties, and we just kept on letting her have more and more as she got so attached to the kitties every time a mama cat had a liter of kitties.  There are so many more good memories of our life when we were living the family life back then.  I have totes and totes of pictures of our life back then, VHR tapes of all of Jenny’s soccer games, Christmas ‘s together with our families, I know we all have good memories of you from that time, Including both our families and friends. There are so many good memories from our married life and with the kids.  I will never  forget after we got married and honeymooned in Florida, we were at the beach and both fell asleep in the chairs under the umbrellas only to wake up to sunburned legs, arms, I remember staying at your moms house and we couldn’t get out of bed for days as we were so swollen, my legs especially, your mom gave us a bell to ring if we needed anything  as it hurt too bad to stand on our legs, I remember the bathroom only being a few feet away and how when we tried to stand up to go, it took us forever to get there as  the pain was excruciating, especially for me,  When we came home a week later my legs were still swollen some and purple, lessoned learned.  I remember all the Florida trips to see your mom and Gordon and Grandma Marge in Clearwater, staying with her and visiting her, she was an absolute hoot!  I remember your mom and Gordan taking us to the Hawaiian Lu ha that was a fun experience, I remember Gordon taking Angie and I for a ride in his biplane over Disney, I remember all our trips to Disney world and the beach with the girls.  I am glad our divorce was a very friendly one, I remember us sitting on the bench side by side on the bench at the courthouse and the judge looking at our attorneys and asking if these 2 really want a divorce, we went ahead with it and afterwards we went to the city park and sat on a bench down at the water and hugged and cried the loss of our marriage for a long time, I am glad we stayed in touch after that time until we couldn’t.   That is what I am trying to stay focused on.  PS the answer to your question about when you paid me a visit the other night is Yes, I Am! I know we have always kept in touch over the years, ever since after our divorce up until the time we couldn’t , we had many of conversations , messages and I really thought life was going good for you and you were happy,  even though I know that flood was a lot of trauma for you and you and people around there experienced things no one should have ever  had to experience. We had many conversations on this but the most recent was sounding like you were being optimistic that 2026 was going to be a great year so I was shocked to hear of your passing and the circumstances as we all were.  I know we all had to get through the initial shock, all the mixed emotions we were all feeling that is normal in grieving to get to a better place, it just took some time for some of us, but I am in a better place with my feelings.  I was given some good advice lately and that is that everyone starts out as a good person, and we can’t let the bad things define that person’s whole life, I had to really think about that for a while and concluded that is true.   My thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this, our daughter, my kids who you treated like your own, both our families and the other families, your children, your step children and their families, friends that have known you over the years and friends who met along the way." - Carla

Christopher was laid to rest during a private family memorial.

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