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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Roger William Haerther
Age: 87
City: Shellsburg
Funeral Home
Phillips Funeral Home
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Roger William Haerther
Roger William Haerther
Shellsburg
Roger William Haerther, 87, died Monday, July 7, 2025, at the Virginia Gay Nursing and Rehab in Vinton.
Funeral Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 14, 2025, at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Atkins, with the Rev. Douglas Woltemath officiating. Interment will be held at St. Stephen's Cemetery, Atkins. Friends may call at the St. Stephen's Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall in Atkins from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m. Sunday. A memorial fund has been established for the St. Stephen's Lutheran Choir or L.W.M.L.
Condolences may be left at www.phillipsfuneralhomrs.com.

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