Doris Katherine Rogers

Doris K. Rogers, 95, a resident of Luverne, Alabama, passed away peacefully in her home on Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 with her daughters by her side. Funeral services for Doris will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, October 3rd, from the Chapel of Turners Funeral Home with Brother Clay Crum and Rev. Jerry Hogwood officiating. She will then be laid to rest beside her beloved husband in Rutledge Cemetery with Turners Funeral Home of Luverne directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday for one hour prior to the service.

To say Doris enjoyed being on the go is most definitely an understatement. According to her family, her real first, middle, and last names were "Go"! Didn't matter if you were just going down the road to the store for a single item, she absolutely wanted to go with you. No doubt that fed into her passionate work as the Alabama Baptist Associations WMU director for Crenshaw County. While her home church was South Luverne Baptist, she spent so much time visiting other churches that, if you were a Baptist in the area, you almost certainly knew Miss Doris! Didn't hurt that she had a gift for gab as well, so she never had a problem turning all strangers into friends. Not only that, but she also dedicated much of her free time to helping with the food pantry, missions, and teaching those precious children in Sunday School. She was truly a woman who loved the Lord with all of her heart and all of her soul, and the world was better for it.

Doris was an excellent seamstress. She got her start with Luverne Slacks back when it was Foster Brothers before she owned her own cloth store and lovingly crafted many custom items for others or helped them with alterations they could not do themselves. And you better believe she was just as gifted in the kitchen, especially when it came to baking. Her chocolate cake was a family favorite (it had the "good icing"), but at Christmas there probably wasn't a traditional holiday cake she didn't make. Her family and friends certainly feasted well on her desserts every holiday season for many years. Above all, however, Doris was a devoted wife, mother, and "Grandmama" to three generations. She knew the importance of cherishing your family as your most precious gift on this earth and they each flourished under her loving care. She leaves behind close to a century-long legacy of how to impact your family and community for the better and that will keep her memory alive for many more years to come.

Doris was preceded in death by her cherished husband of 43 years, Jesse W. Rogers; their children, Lillian R. Bailey and Randy W. Rogers; granddaughter, Kimberly Dawn Hermeling; sons-in-law, RD Owens and Jerry Peak; and parents, Charlie Ross & Lelia Jackson Massey. She is survived by her loving daughters, Linda R. Owens, Dianne R. (David) Coggins, and Joanne R. Peak; daughter-in-law, Beth M. Rogers; and fifteen grandchildren, thirty-two great-grandchildren, and sixteen great-great-grandchildren.

Active pallbearers will be Freddie Hermeling, Josh Owens, Andrew Coggins, Michael Peak, Brandon Rogers, and Micah Wallace.

The family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to the nurses and staff of SouthernCare Hospice for their wonderful care of Doris in her last days.