Marvin Carson Rogers, Jr., died after a long illness on November 9, 2024 in Hanover, NH in the loving presence of his wife, Roberta (Birdi) Kaplow, and his two daughters, Rebecca Rogers and Jennifer Rogers Green.

Marvin was born in 1941 and grew up in Flossmoor, IL with his parents Evelyn and Marvin Rogers, Sr. and his brother John (Jack) Rogers. Marvin played the flute in his high school and college bands and graduated with both his undergraduate and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1964.

In 1967, he enlisted in the Peace Corps to support rural electrification in small mountain towns in Ecuador. His time there made a huge impression on him, and he loved speaking Spanish well into the end of his life.

Marvin married his first wife, Carol Felsinger, in 1973. They moved to Vermont where he began a 30+ year career as a professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center. He earned his second masters degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering Technology. Carol and Marvin were engaged members of the Brookfield and Randolph communities and active participants in Bethany Church and Chandler Music Hall productions in Randolph. They raised two daughters, Jennifer and Rebecca, as well as two American Field Service exchange students, Benedikte Tannvik Dalen of Norway, and Martin Slosiarik of Slovakia.

Marvin was passionate about outdoor adventure sports such as hiking and skiing, as well as music and dancing. He was known among friends for yodeling along the trails of high mountain peaks in the summer and volunteering as a cheerful ski ambassador at Sugarbush and Stowe ski resorts in the winter. He participated in the Vermont Philharmonic, Randolph Singers, Sounding Joy!, South Royalton Band, Thetford Chamber Singers, Revels North, Handel Society, Vermont contra dancing community, FLOCK Dance, and Dancing for Parkinsons.

Marvin moved to Corinth, VT in 2015 with his current wife, Roberta (Birdi) Kaplow. They were married at their home in 2019. They continued to be active hikers, skiers and dancers. Marvin shared his musical talents by playing his hammered dulcimer as a volunteer at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and at Marsh-Billings National Park.

Marvin was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in 2022 and is survived by both of his wives, Roberta (Birdi) Kaplow of Corinth, VT and Carol Felsinger Rogers of Chapel Hill, NC, his children and grandchildren: Rebecca Rogers of San Francisco, CA and her daughter Hannah Rose, and Jennifer Rogers Green and her husband David of Carrboro, NC, and their children Calvin (10) and Alexander (6). He is also survived by his wife Birdi’s family: Rebecca Dudenhoeffer of Litchfield, OH, and Nathan Dudenhoeffer and his wife Hillary of OshKosh, WI, and their children Allison (10) and Eleanor (8).

Marvin danced and sang his way through life. There will be a celebration of the full life he led in the spring of 2025.

 

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