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Ike online: BeaumontEnterprise.com AFTERMATH ANSWERS: Things you want to know WHAT’S ON: Search and share info with the online database for restored electricity WHAT’S OPEN: Database on what’s open and closed in Southeast Texas SHARE INFO: Videos, photos, forums and news alerts PHOTOS: Latest storm images VIDEO: Watch our latest storm videos WEATHER: Partly cloudy, Highs: 80s, Lows: 70s/2A
SUNDAY
The tastiest bits of Southeast Texas are on
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 at beaumontenterpris com
V OL . CXXVIII , N O. 321
$1.50
THE ADVOCATE FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS SINCE 1880
Last of the Rogers brothers Youngest of four who founded TSO, Vic Rogers is remembered for many contributions to Beaumont Victor Joseph Rogers never turned down a non-profit looking for a donation, according to one family member. Rogers died Saturday at age 87. Enterprise file photo
By BLAIR DEDRICK ORTMANN
THE ENTERPRISE
The last surviving sibling of an iconic Beaumont family died Saturday at a Houston hospital. Victor Joseph Rogers, a self-proclaimed eternal optimist whose personal motto was “you gotta believe,” was 87. “He was the best dad,” said Debbie Rogers, speaking for herself and her husband, J.W. Rogers.
“I want everybody to know what a loving father he was. If he and J.W. weren’t together, they always talked. They were best friends.” Born in Chicago in 1921, Victor Rogers was the youngest of six children. His father, Joseph Rogers, died in 1922, and his mother, Minnie Rogers, supported her children by buying properties, fixing them up and reselling them. The children worked at any jobs they could to contribute to
the family funds, according to Enterprise archives. The move to Beaumont came in the 1930s when Sol Rogers decided to open his own optometry business in Houston. Rents, however, decided the business would be opened in Beaumont instead. The family came one by one and never left. Debbie Rogers described Victor Rogers as a man who was always happy and who loved life, as well
as someone who always stopped to help someone in need. “I remember more than once, he would see someone with one of these street signs, ‘I need food,’ and would make you turn around and find him so he could give him money,” she said. “Everybody who crossed his path who ever needed help, he was there for.” Victor Rogers’ charitable contriROGERS, page 15A
Surviving disaster N
o matter if the hurricane that tries to run us off is named Ike or Rita. Southeast Texans may leave their homes and possessions, but their hearts are always here. That is why they come back, stronger and more resilient. Today, the vignettes on Pages 4-6A and a week of photos in Section B reveal some of the countless stories of devastation and recovery unfolding in this region for the second time this decade. And so we begin again — again.
Stories of the storm: Pages 4-6A ◆ A week of Ike — a photographic journey: Section B
From bad to worse Homes that could have been repaired after Rita might have to be razed after Ike because of assistance rules By COLIN GUY
have to have them razed and rebuilt. Under the $210 million Housing A second beatdown by Hurri- Assistance Program, eligible cane Ike could mean some home- homeowners in the 22 counties owners waiting for federal dollars to repair their homes instead will MONEY, page 16A THE ENTERPRISE
INSIDE Advice ..................5C Classified..............6C
INSIDE ◆ Entergy powers up 71 percent: 3A ◆ Buried power lines would be protected but expensive: 3A ◆ Cell phone image of flooded Bridge City Pizza Hut has big impact: 8A ◆ Governor visits Beaumont with praise and caution: 8A ◆ NWS releases stats on Ike: 8A ◆ Battered Galveston bears down for its second rebirth: 10A ◆ Port Neches to waive some fees: 12A ◆ Amid flood of biblical proportions, churches keep faith: 15A
History ..................2A Ike photos ............1B Nation ..................2A Obituaries............14A
Puzzles ................5C Sports..................1C Weather................2A World....................2A
Only game around Even if they were playing on Saturday, Buna and West Sabine prove you can’t kill Friday night lights By PERRYN KEYS
a brilliant sound rose above the trees: cymbals and drums crashing, horns screaming, a sure sign BUNA — Less than a mile away that high school football loomed from the railroad tracks, where a in Cougar Stadium. train whistled and rumbled through town Saturday afternoon, FOOTBALL, page 16A THE ENTERPRISE
Average price of a gallon of regular gas in Southeast Texas: As of Saturday morning
$3.64
Sources: AAA, Oil Price Information Service
◆ Section designed and copy-edited by Vic Odegar, David Constantine, Megan Kinkade, Dennis Meloncon and Wendi Wilkerson, (409) 880-0795 ◆
SUNDAY
The tastiest bits of Southeast Texas are on
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 at beaumontenterpris com
V OL . CXXVIII , N O. 321
$1.50
THE ADVOCATE FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS SINCE 1880
Last of the Rogers brothers Youngest of four who founded TSO, Vic Rogers is remembered for many contributions to Beaumont Victor Joseph Rogers never turned down a non-profit looking for a donation, according to one family member. Rogers died Saturday at age 87. Enterprise file photo
By BLAIR DEDRICK ORTMANN
THE ENTERPRISE
The last surviving sibling of an iconic Beaumont family died Saturday at a Houston hospital. Victor Joseph Rogers, a self-proclaimed eternal optimist whose personal motto was “you gotta believe,” was 87. “He was the best dad,” said Debbie Rogers, speaking for herself and her husband, J.W. Rogers.
“I want everybody to know what a loving father he was. If he and J.W. weren’t together, they always talked. They were best friends.” Born in Chicago in 1921, Victor Rogers was the youngest of six children. His father, Joseph Rogers, died in 1922, and his mother, Minnie Rogers, supported her children by buying properties, fixing them up and reselling them. The children worked at any jobs they could to contribute to
the family funds, according to Enterprise archives. The move to Beaumont came in the 1930s when Sol Rogers decided to open his own optometry business in Houston. Rents, however, decided the business would be opened in Beaumont instead. The family came one by one and never left. Debbie Rogers described Victor Rogers as a man who was always happy and who loved life, as well
as someone who always stopped to help someone in need. “I remember more than once, he would see someone with one of these street signs, ‘I need food,’ and would make you turn around and find him so he could give him money,” she said. “Everybody who crossed his path who ever needed help, he was there for.” Victor Rogers’ charitable contriROGERS, page 15A
Surviving disaster N
o matter if the hurricane that tries to run us off is named Ike or Rita. Southeast Texans may leave their homes and possessions, but their hearts are always here. That is why they come back, stronger and more resilient. Today, the vignettes on Pages 4-6A and a week of photos in Section B reveal some of the countless stories of devastation and recovery unfolding in this region for the second time this decade. And so we begin again — again.
Stories of the storm: Pages 4-6A ◆ A week of Ike — a photographic journey: Section B
From bad to worse Homes that could have been repaired after Rita might have to be razed after Ike because of assistance rules By COLIN GUY
have to have them razed and rebuilt. Under the $210 million Housing A second beatdown by Hurri- Assistance Program, eligible cane Ike could mean some home- homeowners in the 22 counties owners waiting for federal dollars to repair their homes instead will MONEY, page 16A THE ENTERPRISE
INSIDE Advice ..................5C Classified..............6C
INSIDE ◆ Entergy powers up 71 percent: 3A ◆ Buried power lines would be protected but expensive: 3A ◆ Cell phone image of flooded Bridge City Pizza Hut has big impact: 8A ◆ Governor visits Beaumont with praise and caution: 8A ◆ NWS releases stats on Ike: 8A ◆ Battered Galveston bears down for its second rebirth: 10A ◆ Port Neches to waive some fees: 12A ◆ Amid flood of biblical proportions, churches keep faith: 15A
History ..................2A Ike photos ............1B Nation ..................2A Obituaries............14A
Puzzles ................5C Sports..................1C Weather................2A World....................2A
Only game around Even if they were playing on Saturday, Buna and West Sabine prove you can’t kill Friday night lights By PERRYN KEYS
a brilliant sound rose above the trees: cymbals and drums crashing, horns screaming, a sure sign BUNA — Less than a mile away that high school football loomed from the railroad tracks, where a in Cougar Stadium. train whistled and rumbled through town Saturday afternoon, FOOTBALL, page 16A THE ENTERPRISE
Average price of a gallon of regular gas in Southeast Texas: As of Saturday morning
$3.64
Sources: AAA, Oil Price Information Service
◆ Section designed and copy-edited by Vic Odegar, David Constantine, Megan Kinkade, Dennis Meloncon and Wendi Wilkerson, (409) 880-0795 ◆
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