The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-02-14
?. I. 0. FUNERAL
JOURNALISM BURIED
WITH FITTING HONOR

The funeral OF the late Mds. Effie
! Hoffman Rogers, who passed away in
La Junta, Colorado, February z, 1918,
was held Monday afternoon at the
Cheeseman Funeral Home at 2:SO
o'clock. Services were under the aus
pices of the p. Il. o. Chapter x,
whose members furnished special
music, the hymns "Blest Be The Tie
That Binds" and God Be With Us
TIL We Meet Again." Mrs. E. L.
Butler gave reading Crossing the
Bar" accompanied on the piano by
| Mrs. Lucille Bowie. Officers of the
p. E. o. read their ritual service Rev.
Alexander McFerran of the First
Presbyterian church read the scripture
lesson, followed by the 121st Psalm
which has been Mrs. Rodgers favorite
scripture. Clippings of her work were
also read. among them her Christmas
Prayer" recent work Mrs. Virginia
erick Knight Logan sang Clear
Through the Night" The represents
atives of p. E. o. from out of town
who attended were: Mrs Alex Miller
and Mrs. A. r. Dewey past presidents
of Washington, Iowa, Mrs. Louise M.
Henley, of Grinnell, Iowa, state presi-
dent Mrs. Townsend past president.
of Abba, Iowa, Mrs. L. F. Patterson,
of Washington, Iowa, Mesdames Kath-
crime Shean, Daisy Scheppfer, Cert
rude Howard, Gertrude Snakerburg,
and Mayme Terrence Stockholm, OF
Sigourney, Iowa. The pail bearers
were: Messrs. Frank Nash, H. l..
Rosecrans, DR.. j. G. Barringer, DR..
j. G. Roberts, Prof. o. p. Flower and
John HI. Shoemake. The floral offer
ings we're beautiful forming an en-
bankment around the casket Inter
ment in Forest cemetery. As Mrs.
Rogers had at one time been mem
Der of the Oskaloossa Board of Educa-
ton. All teachers in the city schools
who had known her, were permitted
to dismiss their classes for the after
noon.
Fife Hoffman Rogers was the only
daughter of Doctor d. A. and Emily
Smith Hoffman, born at Atehens,
Ohio, May Is, 1855. She came to Os-
kalooaa with the parents, about 1850
when the Doctor established himself
in his profession and where she has
resided ever since with the exception
of three or four years residence in
Kansas following her marriage in
1889 with j. F. Rogers who died in
1888, and until her recent residence
with her daughter Miss Emily in La
Junta Colorado.
AS girl "Effie" Hoffman early DEM
onstrated her natural qualifications
for leadership. She was socially prom
inent among the young people of her
day and the hospitality Of the d. A.
Hoffman home known far and near
through her ministrations. But above
all else the girl was possessed of a
mental and intellectual puperiority.
She was naturally endowed with the
qualifications for leadership and she
became one of the most prominent
women of the community.
She has been a worker, always, a
woman of accomplishment of purpose
and determination and she has done
much in a public way. She was sever
al terms elected to the office of coun-
ty superintendent of public instruction
of Mahaska and was also at the head
of the board of education of the Oska-
loosa schools. She resigned the pres
idency of the board upon her removal
to Colorado only a short while ago.
al Tnl-N I'M in tho
"Woman's Club" movement. n
| Mrs. Rodgers for a number of years
has been editor of the p. e. o, Record,
the nationa official organ of the sup
rene chapter of the P. e. o. sister
hood. She was engaged in this work
while a resident in Oskaloosa and
under her management the magazine
came into prominence. Mrs. Rodgers
had been earlier acquainted with ed
itorial work through association. She
was for a considerable time associate
tditor Of the 0skaloosa Times and the
knowledge gained in newspaper work
added to her success in the field OF
| literature. ..- .
Deceased was possessed of striking
force of character and no one could
come in contact with her personality
without being impressed and influence
ed. Hers has been busy active life
and the good she has done will live
after her.
Deceased is survived b. an only
child Miss Emily Rodgers of La Junta,
Colorado who accompanied the body
to Oskaloosa for interment beside OF
the parents, gone some years before.
There are also the brothers, John
Hoffman, an attorney of Great Falls,
Montana and Ripley C. Hoffman, a
physician and surgeon formerly we'll
known in Oskaloosa. now of Deming.
New Mexico.