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Birth:          18 Dec 1946 Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., Cal.
Death:          9 Mar 2012 Marin Co., Cal.

Notes
!PUBL
1981 book (see for details)
Cal birth idx on ancestry.com
teacher of autistic children, consultant, artist
email from her 22 May 2008
pub rec on ancestry 1999 Broadway Apt 21, San Francisco, Cal.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/marinij/obituary.aspx?pid=156634471
Suzanne Allison Rogers Suzanne died at her home on Thursday, March 9, 2012. She 
was a person of great kindness, beauty, and talent, and she will be deeply missed by 
all who knew her. She was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1946, to James B. and 
Dolly DuPrau, and she grew up in Palo Alto and in Atherton. In 1968, she graduated 
with honors from Mills College and went on to get a master's degree in early childhood 
education from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She had a special feeling for 
young children and also for disabled children; throughout her career, she worked with 
them in exceptionally creative ways. She married Emery Rogers in 1976, and their 
daughter, Lily Allison Rogers, was born in 1986. Motherhood was a vocation for 
Suzanne. She not only devoted herself to Lily, she also brought into the family, at 
separate times, two disabled children from Mexico. Lily grew up surrounded by 
Suzanne's love and inspired by her imagination and her care for others. She currently 
dances with the San Francisco Ballet. All her life, Suzanne was an artistshe was 
talented in the graphic arts and in writing, and she had a beautiful singing voice. Her 
drawings, paintings, and collages express her love of beauty and also her quirky and 
sophisticated sense of humor. Her sharp eye for life's absurdities shows up in her 
writing as well. Jon Carroll, of the San Francisco Chronicle, published a number of her 
short pieces. She is survived by her daughter, Lily, and by her two sisters, Jeanne 
DuPrau of Menlo Park and Sarah Schwartz of Mill Valley, as well as by her brother-in-
law, Andrew Schwartz, and her two nephews, Peter and Daniel. There will be a 
memorial service at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Tiburon on Tuesday, March 
27, 2012 at 3:00 PM. Donations may be made to PROJIMO Duranguito, which 
provides wheelchairs and arranges for free orthopedic and reconstructive surgery for 
children in need. Make out checks to HealthWrights, earmarked for "PROJIMO 
Duranguito/Suzanne Rogers Memorial Fund," and send to: HealthWrights, PROJIMO 
Duranguito/Suzanne Rogers Memorial Fund, 964 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, 
USA. Donations to PROJIMO are tax deductible when made through Health-Wrights, a 
California-based non-profit (501(C)3. 

Published in Marin Independent Journal from Mar. 23 to Mar. 25, 2012

Parents
DUPRAU James Bernard (4 Sep 1903 - 27 Nov 1989)
ALLISON Beulah May ("Dolly") (16 May 1912 - 27 Sep 2009)

Siblings
DUPRAU Jeanne ()
DUPRAU Suzanne Allison (18 Dec 1946 - 9 Mar 2012)
DUPRAU Sarah Louise ("Sally") ()

Marriage To ROGERS Emery H. ()

Notes


Children by ROGERS Emery H.
ROGERS Lily Allison ()

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