Skegness Magazine

FELL FORTY FEET FROM LADDER
SKEGNESS PAINTER DIES IN BOSTON HOSPITAL

MR. Stephen Rogers, the Skegness master painter who fell forty feet from a ladder while painting the outside of the County Hotel on Thursday, died in hospital at Boston early the following day.
Mr. Rogers, of 38, Ida Road, Skegness, was admitted to the Boston hospital at 4.20 p.m. on Thursday. Though an operation was performed he died eleven hours later.

When an inquest was opened at Boston on Friday, Dr. G. Sellers, senior houseman at the London Road Hospital, said death was due to irreversible shock following multiple injuries.
Evidence of identification was given by Miss Constance Mary Rogers, Mr. Rogers’ daughter, a teacher of the same address.
The inquest was then adjourned to a date to be fixed.

CHIEF SERVER
For the funeral at St. Matthew’s, Skegness, on Monday, a former Skegness Rector (the Rev. G. R. Sansbury, M.A.), made a sad return visit to pay tribute to Mr. Rogers who one of the first members of the St. Matthew’s Guild of Altar Servers, and had been chief server for more than 20 years.
Coming to Skegness at an early age, Mr. Rogers worked for many years as foreman with master painter and decorator, Mr. S. R. Gillan, taking over the business when Mr. Gillan retired, and starting business on his own account just before the war.

He was a prominent member of the Masonic movement, being a Past Master of the Lumley Lodge and Earl of Scarbrough Lodge M.M.M., a principal of the Lumley Chapter R.A., Past Provincial Grand Tyler and a member of the St. Clement Lodge and St. Wilfred Lodge R.A.M. He was a keen golfer and belonged to the North Shore Golf Club.

At the funeral service, Mr. Sans-bury said of him: “He was a dearly beloved and respected person in this town for a long period of time. He was a skilled craftsman in his trade, a wise and kindly employer and an honoured member of the Masonic fraternity, but we in this church will always remember him … as chief server in our guild.”

Mr. Rogers leaves a widow and two daughters, Mrs. Lee, of Dersingham, Norfolk, and Miss Constance Rogers, a Skegness schoolteacher.