Joan Rodgers

August 21, 1940 - April 9, 2008

Joan D. Cosby-Rodgers, 67, of Bowling Green died April 9, 2008, in Bowling Green. She was a housekeeper, a child care provider and a member of Eleventh Street Baptist Church, where she served as Sunday school teacher, missionary, Willing Worker teacher, Nurse Aide president, Bible school teacher, Circle No. 2 Union District president and Upper Community Choir member. She was also a 1959 graduate of High Street School and Great Commission Community Bible College. She was a daughter of the late James E. Cosby Sr. and Elizabeth Gumm-Cosby. She was preceded in death by three sisters, Evelyn Jean Cosby, Anna Elizabeth Cosby and Betty Cosby; and a brother, Herman Pete Cosby. Funeral is at 1 p.m. Saturday at Eleventh Street Baptist, with burial in Rockfield Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Burnam & Son Mortuary. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Hospice of Southern Kentucky or the American Cancer Society. Survivors include her husband, Carl L. Rodgers; a daughter, Carla Brown and her husband, James, of Bowling Green; a son, Dwight Rodgers and his wife, Angela, of Bowling Green; a stepson, Kelvin Smith of Tappahannock, Va.; three sisters, Waldean Pratt and her husband, Grady, Louise Cosby and Charlene Gamble and her husband, James, all of Bowling Green; three brothers, James Cosby Jr. and his wife, Evelyn, and Robert Cosby and his wife, Geneva, all of Bowling Green, and Charles Cosby and his wife, Peggy, of Franklin; an aunt, Dottie Gumm of Franklin; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.