Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers born Sept. 29, 1944, in a West Texas small town of Stanford, Texas, to a devoted God-fearing Christian Mother and Father Johnie and Mary Rodgers. They are the reason I can say without a doubt that Dad is in heaven. Dad was the strongest, stubbornest, hardest working man I have ever seen. He was a true cowboy. The kind you couldn’t just buck off. The kind that says 'Yes ma’am', 'No sir', 'Thank you', and respects everyone. So we owe a big thank you to Johnie and Mary, for playing such a huge role in knowing Dad is in heaven.

He coached baseball and football. He loved his horses and became a true Horse whisperer while breaking and shooing horses for extra money. An example of a true cowboy.

He had a sister Edna. Where they grew up together raising all the kids and eventually Edna would marry David Rawls.

David said he remembered my Dad the day he went to work for Walsh and watts. David said Dad was the hardest worker he had ever seen and Walsh and Watts hired him on the spot. He said Dad came to him and said he wouldn’t leave him and David convinced him he wanted him to do better for himself,

and that was going to be a good job.

Time goes on until 1963 when he now has eight brothers and sisters and a little white swan that he calls his princesses Carolyn McNew, born 0630-1947, and as you can see in the picture in front of a new 1957 Chevy dressed to kill. Mom and Dad looked like the happiest people in the world. They went on to have a daughter Sheri and husband Chad Higdon of Odessa. Three boys Jimmie and Misty Rodgers of Big Spring; Brandon Rodgers of Big Spring, and Kevin Rodgers of Odessa.

Throughout the remaining years of Dad's life he had coached, worked, worshiped and held firm to the very end knowing that he would be riding his horse across heaven with his mother, his grandpa, and his nephew David Jr., while watching Brayden fishing and Dylan playing baseball. So our dad wanted everyone to know he was going to Heaven and that he knew Jesus as his personal Lord and savior who died on the cross for him as well as each and every one of us.

Visitation was Wednesday at Myers & Smith Funeral Home from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with family receiving friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Thursday in the Myers & Smith Chapel.

Arrangements are by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Pay your respects online at www.myersandsmith.com

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