Frank Waters Rogers Jr. ’51

We lost Bo Rogers July 11, 2005.

Born in Roanoke, Va., Dec. 10, 1928, he and his twin brother, Bob, prepared for Princeton at Episcopal High School. An economics major, Bo was in the choir, Pre-Law Society, Whig-Clio, and Tower Club, and went out for 150-pound football and varsity tennis. He and Bob roomed with Neill Schaller and Tim Barclay. At UVA he was on the Law Review. He later earned a master's of law from Georgetown in taxation.

From 1954 to 1958 he served in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, and for a period of time he worked in the tax division of the Department of Justice. By 1960 he and his brother had entered into practice with their father in the Roanoke law firm now known as Woods Rogers, where he remained until his death.

Bo and Laurine Kunkel were married in 1955 and had three children, Frank W. III, Molly Cramer, and Nancy. He is survived by them and by his sisters, Anne Vaden and Virginia Holton. His memorial service was held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Roanoke, where he had served on the vestry and as junior warden. His brother Bob died in 1976.

The Class of 1951