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TEXAS CO E 123rd MAINT BN 1st ARMD DIV 4th US ARMY
SP4, US ARMY, Vietnam, 1966-1968
U.S. Army Reserves 1968-1972
Bronze Star recipient for valor.
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Entered 03/25/1966 at Little Rock, AR, trained at Ft. Hood, TX, then deployed to Vietnam. Served 1 year, 11 months and 28 days. Honorable discharge 03/22/1968 at Ft. Hood, TX. Reservist until 03/24/1972.
Official title was "Decontamination Specialist." His mother said he used Agent Orange. All he would tell anyone was that they dug foxholes and drank beer. He was very close to his Uncle Bob (Jacobs) and would often confide in him. I'm sure he talked to Uncle Bob about a lot that happened in Vietnam.
He was awarded the bronze star for going back during a retreat to save a fellow soldier.
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Awards:
Vietnam Service Medal w/ Bronze Star
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Expert - M-60 MG
Marksman - Rifle
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The medals were in the possession of Ed's mother Henrietta. They were lost or stolen. Ed's son, Hank, had them re-issued Summer 2008 to give to Ed's only grandson, Grant Golden.
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Ed and Elaine were married in LaFayette, AL at the home of Charles Spence, J.P., who was married to Elaine's cousin.
Licence issued in Lee County, executed in Chambers County. Lee County Marriage Records, B.52, P. 464, #2570 To Joyce Elaine Howell, Divorcé.
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Ed was shot and killed on Hwy. 87, 5 miles south of Old Salem, TX. The man responsible, Selman Jones Mobley, served 26 years in prison for his crime.
Known to his nephews and nieces as "Uncle Bo." Known as "Daddy" to his children. Known as Ed or Eddie Henry to most everyone else. His Uncle Bob called him "Wop" (slang for an Italian).
Ed only had an 8th grade education. His family was very poor. He lost his father at age 4. He was ambidextrous, often left-handed. He had a great personality and was a ladies man.
He and his brother Daniel owned a hydraulics business, Power Master Hydraulics. He would travel all over the south working on grain elevators that tipped the semi trucks up during unloading.
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The Orange Leader, Friday, June 22, 1984, Page 1
Edward Rogers
A 37 year old Orange man was shot and killed Thursday (21st) night during a fight alongside Highway 87 about 20 miles north of here.
Edward Rogers, 37, was killed by a single shotgun blast to the abdomen, according to Ken Ray Chief Deputy at the Newton County Sheriffs Department.
Selman Jones Mobley, 31, of the Old Salem Community north of Deweyville has been arrested and charged with the murder in connection with the case Ray said.
The chief Deputy said Mobley was denied bond by Aaron Hopkins, Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace in Newton County. The suspect was in the Newton County jail today in Newton.
The two men apparently were involved in a dispute at about 8:15 pm on the side of the Hwy 87 when the shot was fired, Ray said. "There was an altercation of some sort and Rogers wound up dead" he said.
An autopsy was performed at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Ray said. Death was due to the gunshot wound.
Funeral arrangements for Rogers are pending at Smith Funeral Home in Newton.
Additional information about Rogers was not immediately available.
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Pine Bluff News, Thursday, June 28, 1984, Page 2
Edward Henry Rogers
Edward Henry Rogers, 37, of Orange, Texas, died June 21 at Newton, Texas.
He was born February 2, 1947 in Magnolia, Arkansas. He was the son of Henrietta Jacobs Mann of Pine Bluff and the late William Henry Rogers. He was raised and educated in Pine Bluff. He was a self-employed hydraulics system repairman.
He was a Baptist.
Survivors include his mother; one son, William Henry "Hank" Rogers of Alabama; one daughter, Stephanie Rogers of Alabama; three brothers, Daniel Rogers of Orange, Texas, Stephen Mann of Little Rock, and Willie Mann of Pine Bluff; three sisters, Maryetta Rogers, Jessie Adela Rogers and Emma Cleo Coker, all of Pine Bluff; a maternal grandfather, Adel Allen of Texas; a step-father, Jessie Mann of Pine Bluff.
Funeral services were conducted June 26 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Ralph Robinson and Son by Reverend Lory R. Poynter. Burial was in Memorial Park North Cemetery.
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The obit failed to state that he still had a wife, Elaine Sharp Rogers. He died 4 days before their divorce was to be final.
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