RODGERS, WILLIAM A., JR.

Waverly—Military rites for Marine Pvt. William A. Rodgers, Jr., son of William A. and Henrietta Seymour Rodgers of Auburn, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Neece Funeral Home at Franklin.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of Virden will have charge of the service. Burial will be in Franklin Cemetery. The body will arrive in Franklin Saturday.

Besides his parents, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Grace Gleason; two brothers, James and George; and one niece, Mary Gleason, all of Auburn.

Pvt. Rodgers was killed Nov. 2, 1943, in the South Pacific.