Jeanette M. Branch Rogers, 74, of Blackshear, passed away Saturday evening, October 22, 2022, at Hospice Satilla Hospice House in Waycross.
Born in Hortense November 23, 1947, she had lived in Pierce and Wayne counties most of her life. She worked with the tobacco crews at her husband’s farm. She had also worked at the Blackshear Shoe Factory and later became a housewife. She loved fishing, the outdoors, and flowers. She was of the Baptist Faith.
She was a daughter of the late Willie D. Branch and Dorothy Lee Pierce Branch Aspinwall. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Tony Rogers; a son, Curtis Westberry; a sister, Ruby Moody and two brothers, Thomas Branch and Elvin Branch.
Survivors include a son, David Westberry; three sisters, Winnie Lee Manning, Manningtown, Nancy Ann (Roger) Brooks and Mae Dean Carter , Blackshear; two brothers, Pete Branch, Mount Pleasant and Preston Branch, Blackshear; five grandchildren, Dasha (RJ) Dean, Kailey (Tyler) Pierce, Libby Youmans, Shane (Brittany) Youmans and Abby (Leon) Hope; nine great-grandchildren; two special friends, Gary Bullard, Patterson and Torey Smith, Blackshear and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Memorialization will be by cremation.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online register at www.pearsondial.com.
Pearson-Dial Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
