Frank Rogers

Frank “Bud” Rogers passed away on August 26, 2022. Bud was born in Santa Barbara, California on May 14, 1937. His mom, Angelina Cavalli, soon moved to San Francisco and married Thomas Rogers Jr. Bud followed when he was four and soon had a kid brother, Thomas Rogers III. The four of them lived in the Mission District of San Francisco where Bud graduated from Mission High School in 1954. He soon enlisted in the army and served two years in Korea rising to the rank of Sergeant. Bud cherished spending time with his beloved aunt and uncle, Marie and Clayton Horne. Clayton passed on a love for building things and, once out of the army, Bud started his life-long vocation as a carpenter. While staying with Marie and Clayton one holiday, his cousin Diane introduced Bud to her best friend, Barbara Winter. A year later, Bud and Barbara were married and proceeded to have four children together—Frank Jr., Jim, Rich, and Linda. Bud and Barbara split up in 1972. During those days of crisis, Bud had a conversion experience and became a Christian. He started attending Hillside Church of God where he was soon baptized. For the rest of Bud’s days, faith was at the center of every dimension of his life. Hillside Church offered Bud another life-long gift as well. A fellow parishioner introduced Bud to Dona Guidry. The same afternoon that Dona was baptized, Bud took her, and her daughter Lori, to the San Francisco Aquarium with Bud’s other children. Love took root and in October of 1973, Bud and Dona were married—a union that they would enjoy together for over 48 years. Lori was immediately adopted and she was cherished alongside the other children. Bud and Dona would then have three more children, John, David, and Daniel. Throughout the years, Bud was a steadfast provider and heroic father to all eight of his children. Each one of them was well-loved. Bud would go on to become a grandfather and a great-grandfather. Fifteen grandchildren—Justin, Michael, Sammy, Erika, Brittany, Kristina, Lauren, Matthew, Logan, K.J., Dona, D.J., Scarlett, Jolina, and Grace, along with six great- grandchildren—Kailey, Nathan, Brody, Tommy, Lucas, and Olivia—knew his love and will always carry memories of fishing with him, playing cards, and eating Grandpa’s famous pasties and corn fritters. In 1990, Bud and Dona bought a five-acre lot in Wilton, California, about twenty miles south of Sacramento. Through the following years, Bud realized one of his dreams—to design and construct his own house. Bud did it all. He drew up the blueprints, excavated the lot, laid the foundation, and built a 3500 square foot house from floor to ceiling. As he had dreamed, this house became the site of family gatherings for birthdays and holidays for years on end. Also as Bud would have it, he spent his last days there, dying peacefully in the comfort of the home he had built after an eight-year bout with Parkinson’s Disease. Bud lived an active and full life. He loved working on projects, camping at Memorial Park and Brannan Island, waterskiing in the Delta, sailing in the lagoons, flipping pancakes and playing horseshoes at the annual family reunion, faithfully watching 49ers football and Giants baseball, reading his Bible daily, listening to Family Radio, playing Bull, shooting pool and spending time with family. We are ever so grateful for the abundance of memories. And we will miss him and love him forever. Services will be held as follows: The funeral will be at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at Sierra View Funeral Chapel, 6201 Fair Oaks Blvd., Carmichael, CA 95608. A graveside ceremony with military honors will follow at 12:00 PM at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Rd., Dixon, CA 95620. In lieu of flowers, please donate, in Bud’s honor, to the organization devoted to Parkinson’s research that Bud most supported. Charitable donations can be made by check to Brain Support Network, PO Box 7264, Menlo Park, CA 94026 or by credit card online at www.brainsupportnetwork.org. Thank you for your generosity, and for your care for our beloved husband, dad, and granddad.