August 27, 1916 ~ January 3, 2014
Annie Kathryn Rodgers, 97, Glasgow, passed away on Friday, January 03, 2014, at the T. J. Samson Community Hospital. A native of Metcalfe County, she was a daughter of the late Sam and Betsy Lamburth Dilley.
Mrs. Rodgers was a Registered Nurse, having trained at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, later moving to Lynch, KY, and then to Paducah, where she worked for Atlas Powder Company. It was there she met Bill Rodgers, whom she married on December 28, 1945. A short while later, they moved back to Glasgow where she began working at T. J. Samson Community Hospital as a Registered Nurse and continued for 39 years; 33 of which she was Director of Nursing.
Mrs. Rodgers was also very active in community and civic organizations. She was a member and Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star; a member of the White Shrine; a charter member of the Glasgow B & PW Club; Member and Past President of the Glasgow Garden Club; a member of the Edmund Rogers Chapter DAR; a founding member of the Samsonites, of which she continued to be active; and an avid researcher of family genealogy.
Survivors include one son: Bill Rodgers and wife Judy of Fernardina Beach, FL; two grandchildren: Todd Rodgers and wife Lisa of Winterville, GA, and Amy Scurria and husband Mark of Chapel Hill, NC; four great-grandchildren: Alex, Will, Isabella, and Caitlin; several nieces and nephews including one special niece, Frances Royse.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Rodgers, two brothers, and one sister.
Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church with burial in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home and after 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Eastern Star Services will be held 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Alternate expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to T. J. Samson Hospice.