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Portrait of Dessree Rogers Smith
Remembering Dessree Rogers

Dessree Rogers Smith

February 10, 1941 – August 9, 2019
Lived 78 years
Arbor Springs · Northport, Alabama
Life story

Born Dessree Rogers. No middle name.

Grew up in Northport, AL

Married H.P. McMillian in 1964 and had 2 children.

Married Thomas Wilson in 1980

Married Vernon Smith 1999

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1941
Born February 10
1945
Dessree was 4 when World War II ended
1951
Dessree was 10 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1969
Dessree was 28 when "Sesame Street" debuted
1974
Dessree was 33 when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency
1981
Dessree was 40 when MTV began broadcasting
1995
Dessree was 54 when "Toy Story" became the first fully computer-animated film
2001
Dessree was 60 when Apple introduced the iPod
2014
Dessree was 73 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2019
Passed away August 9, age 78
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Melinda Montgomery 122w

Gone Fishing

"Gone Fishing" is what she had put on her gravestone. She chose this because she said she would forever be fishing. I just imagine she is. That woman loved to fish! If the water was wet she was dropping a hook. Raised me on the creeks, rivers and ocean. No spot to fish was to big or to small.

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