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President Joe Biden and Texas Governor Greg Abbott wished Henry Rogers a happy birthday on Saturday.
AUSTIN, Texas – World War II veteran Henry Rogers celebrates his 100th birthday in Austin on Saturday, October 16.
Born on October 16, 1921, Rogers survived the Great Depression, then enlisted in the Army, where he met his wife at a USO dance in Joplin, Missouri. The two married in Tampa, Florida in 1943 and had four children.
While in service, he was deployed to the South Pacific theater of war during World War II and to Korea after the Korean War. At the end of the 1950s he was also sent to Germany for the Berlin Airlift. In 1963 he retired as a lieutenant colonel in the army.
Rogers learned computer programming after retirement and worked for the Veterans Administration’s data processing center in South Austin for many years, processing monthly VA benefits.
He paid tuition at the University of Texas for all of his four children, who all had bachelor’s degrees, as well as his wife, who had mastered degrees.
Rogers suffered a heart attack at the age of 67 that completely changed his diet, lifestyle and longevity, the Pecan Ridge Memory Care Center said.
Pecan Ridge, where Rogers now lives, said he was still very coherent and aware of his surroundings.
President Joe Biden and Texas Governor Greg Abbott wished Rogers a happy birthday on Saturday.
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