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Annalea Rodgers
ANNALEA RODGERS
Cedar Rapids
Annalea Rodgers, 89, of Cedar Rapids, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. A memorial service will be held at Cedar Rapids Bible Chapel on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 11 a.m.
Survivors include her husband of 65 years, David Rodgers; three children, Rebekah (Harold) Mally of Marion, Ronald (Kumduk) Rodgers of Madison, Wis., and Larry (Roxanne) Rodgers of Biwabik, Minn.; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
She was born July 8, 1925, to Earl and Nora Carson in Chariton, Iowa. She attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., where she met her husband. She lived in Wheaton until moving to Cedar Rapids in 1966.
Annalea was a great appreciator of all things good. She loved flowers and trees and sunsets. She loved good books, especially those by C.S. Lewis. She loved the happy noises that children often make. Nothing delighted her more than to hold an infant and elicit coos as she spoke to the baby and smiled. She delighted in kindness. Her thoughts toward others were always liberal; bearing all things, believing all things and hoping all things.
She was a friend to anyone who was in need and was always willing to listen and encourage. With her husband, she also provided much practical help with meals and transportation.
Her life was characterized by gentleness.
Of all the good she appreciated, she most appreciated her Lord Jesus, whom she found to be meek and lowly in heart, and of whom she wrote a simple children's book titled "Benjamin, His Father, His Grandfather and Jesus."
She endured a long illness. For many years she was faithfully and lovingly cared for by her husband. Her last several months were at Willow Gardens Care Center in Marion, where she was cared for with kindness and dignity. She daily expressed a desire to go home to be with her Savior.
She is greatly missed by all who knew her.
Her favorite Bible verse was Galatians 2:20 – "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loveth me, and gave Himself for me."
Online condolences may be made at www.stewartbaxter.com.
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