Avis de décès de Mary-Ellanor-Donnell Rogers - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

Mary Ellanor Donnell Rogers, 85     BATH -- Mary Ellanor Donnell Rogers, 85, died at her home in Bath on Thursday, March 27, 2008.     She was born in Tientsin, China, the daughter of Charles J. and Mary Strong Donnell. She was a descendent of Henry Donnell, an early 17th century settler in York. She was the last direct descendent of Joseph T. Donnell, who came to Bath in 1843 to work at the Donnell ropewalk.     She attended the American School in Tientsin and North Primary and Grammar in Bath; she also had three years at State High School in Kalamazoo, Mich. She graduated from Rogers Hall School in 1940 and Smith College in 1943 in the accelerated wartime class. She worked for the OSS in Washington, D.C., until the end of World War II, and afterwards for other U.S. government departments in Korea, Pakistan and Japan. In 1951, she married Joseph J. Rogers in Tokyo, Japan. She enjoyed her life as an Army wife at Fort McLellan, Ala.; Fort Ord, Calif.; Alexandria, Va.; Verona, Italy; and Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.     In 1967, upon her husband's retirement from the Army, she returned to Bath to live. As the civic affairs chairman of the Bath Garden Club, she was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Downtown Restoration and of the Waterfront Park Committee. She became greatly interested in the historic preservation movement and served for many years on the boards of trustees of Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. and Maine Preservation. She was also a member from Maine of the board of advisors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 1986, she received a State of Maine Historic Preservation Award and, in 1999, Maine Preservation's Statewide Historic Preservation Award.     She was a founder and continuing supporter of the Chocolate Church Arts Center, and was instrumental in establishing an endowment fund for the maintenance of the Winter Street Church building.     Her other interests included reading, stock investments, bridge, tennis and skiing. All her life, when possible, she summered at Popham Beach, for which she had great affection.     Surviving are her husband; two sons, Donnell J. Rogers of Pendleton, Ore., and Charles J. Rogers of Suffolk, Va.; and four grandchildren.      There will be no funeral service.     Memorial contributions may be made to Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. for the Winter Street Building Endowment Fund.