Ruth Hendrix Danner Rogers

Ruth Hendrix Danner Rogers of Washington, Georgia, passed away on October 19, 2025, at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, Georgia, she was 90 years old.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 3:00 PM at the Chapel of Hopkins Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Resthaven Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the Hopkins Funeral one hour before the service.

Ruth was born on December 02, 1934, in Washington, Wilkes County to the late William Grady and Agnes Barrett Hendrix and was the second of eight children. Ruth was twice married and twice widowed, first to Robert L. (Bobby) Danner, 32 years and Grady E. Rogers, 18 years.

Ruth lived her entire life in Washington, Georgia. She graduated with honors from Washington High School in the class of 1952. She was a valued member of the school newspaper and won the State Journalism Award her senior year. She wrote the Class Last Will and Testament and had a lead role in the Senior Play. She was instrumental in planning the Class reunions and in promoting the Class of 1952 Scholarship and each year presented this to the Valedictorian of the graduating class of Washington Wilkes High School.

After high school, Ruth worked twenty years for Alfred Moses in the office at Almar Manufacturing Company. Following this she did clerical work at Washington Drapery and Concord Fabrics. While at Concord, she attended college at night to attain a degree to become her life's passion, a schoolteacher.

Ruth received her associate in arts, Magna Cum Laude, in 1984, from Truett McConnell College and her Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, in 1987 from Augusta College She started teaching in Washington Wilkes Middle and Elementary School and earned her Master of Education in 1990, from Augusta College. Ruth was twice named Teacher of the Year and was the leader in promoting Olympics in the School for the three years prior to the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. In 1996, she and Kay Bray organized and promoted the Olympics in the School with a yearlong emphasis. Through their efforts, the Olympic torch and the mascot, Izzie, were brought to their closing ceremony. Ruth served as a volunteer at the 1996 Olympics at Lake Lanier and Stone Mountain. She trained in teaching with computers and the last 8 years of her teaching were in the school's first computer lab. Ruth was a leader in organizing the Wilkes chapter of Professional Association of Georgia Educators and served several terms as its president. She was awarded lifetime membership in PAGE and is a lifetime member of Augusta University Alumni Association. She retired from teaching in 2000.

Her faith and her church were vital in Ruth's life. She was a member of Washington First Baptist Church from a child, attending Sunday School, Training Union and their age-related mission organizations. Ruth taught Sunday School at First Baptist for fifty-three years, was director of the WMU and served as chairman of numerous committees. Since 2007 she has attended and been a member of Sardis Baptist Church at Rayle. Here she served as a Sunday School teacher, WMU director, and on several committees. Many church members and friends will fondly remember the cards and notes Ruth sent on different occasions in their lives.

Ruth enjoyed traveling and had visited all but three states in the U.S. plus many foreign countries. She was an avid reader and a member of the WALLI Book Club. She served as her Learning in Retirement group president and as other officers. She enjoyed her passion for flowers and kept a pristine yard if her health permitted. In 2020, at age 85, she received the Congressman Jody Hice Headliner Award for her efforts in beautification in the Washington downtown area.

She is survived by her daughter, Angela Danner Attaway and husband Art of Big Canoe and Grady's sons, Eddie Rogers of Carrollton and Bruce Rogers and wife Valerie of Washington. She was affectionately called Grand Ruth by her five grandchildren, Alex Cooper, Heath Rogers, Meg Crew, Olivia Rogers and Blake Rogers: her seven great-grandchildren, Brooks Cooper, Peyton Cooper, Nolan Cooper, Abigail Rogers, Hank Rogers, Hattie Crew and Grady Crew. In addition, she leaves behind her brother, Richard Hendrix of Vero Beach, FL, sisters, Mary H. Burt of Washington, Patricia Lindsey and husband Mike of Kennesaw and Kathy Hendrix of Thomson.

In addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by her infant son, Robert David Danner, and her siblings, Reba H. Thornton, Fannie Mae Hodge, and Marjorie H. Bunch.

Nephews will serve as pallbearers while members of her Widows Supper Club and the Annie Blanche Vaughn Sunday School Class will serve as honorary pallbearers.

Memorial contributions may be made to Sardis Baptist Church Building Fund c/o Pam Hall, 4915 Lexington Road, Washington, GA 30673 or the Washington Wilkes Class of 1952 Scholarship Fund.