DOGGETT, Louise Rogers
Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Louise Rogers DoggettIf you followed the lives of San Francisco's prominent families and civic leaders during the 1930s, '40s and '50s, you knew of the family of William Lister Rogers.
The patriarch was a 1924 Olympic gold medalist, Stanford trustee, hospital chief of staff, WWII combat surgeon in the Pacific Theater and nationally respected thoracic surgeon who treated persons inflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis years before the disease was understood and before an antibiotic had become
His equally impressive wife, Dorothy, led the political battle that preserved Fort Point at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, directed the World Affairs Council of Northern California, served as the first female president of San Francisco's Council of Churches, and received the highest honor Lebanon bestowed upon civilians, for her contribution to the American University of Beirut, where she served on the Board of Trustees.
Among the Rogers' three children was Louise, who passed away, mercifully without pain, of pancreatic cancer on July 22 at age 76.
In a family of high achievers who often appeared in the city's society pages, Louise never thought of herself as better than anyone else. She never complained even when
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