Funeral service for SSG (Retired) Monte D. Rogers, 77, Lawton, will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Sergeant Rogers died Tuesday in a Lawton hospital. Burial with full military honors will be in the Veterans Field of Honor at Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born December 14, 1933 in Mendota, Illinois to John Ambrose and Zaida (Harrison) Rogers. He grew up in Enid, Oklahoma, and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 17. He was a veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam Wars and retired at Fort Sill on May 31, 1971. Following his retirement he owned and operated the Lawton Coin Mart for 22 years and retired again in 1996. He married Saundra Howard on November 25, 1954 at Vance Air Force Base in Enid. He was a member of the American Legion and was an avid numismatist and had served as President for the Oklahoma State Numismatist Society. He is survived by his wife, of the home; three daughters and sons in law, Deborah and Larry Gilbert, Manvel, Texas, Ginger and Butch Woods, Lawton, and Cindy and Rodney Young, Orange, Texas; a son and daughter in law, John L. and Theresa Rogers, Las Vegas, Nevada; two brothers, Jack and Theodore Rogers, both of Enid, Oklahoma; two sisters, Jean Choate, Comanche, Oklahoma, and Terry Egan, Lindsay, Oklahoma; five grandsons, Damon Tucker, Cameron Tucker, A.J. Woods, Brian Johnson and Nicholas Rogers; four great grandchildren. His parents preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lawton Fort Sill Veterans Center, 501 SE Flower Mound Road, Lawton OK 73501.