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Submitted: 1/15/13 • Approved: 2/28/22 • Last Updated: 3/3/22 • R813572-G0-S3
1960 - March 20, 1965
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Times
Saturday, March 20, 1965
Rogers Fire Kills Father, Daughter
ROGERS — A father and his four-year-old daughter died early today when flames destroyed their frame home just inside the city limits.
Two other children were flown to a Little Rock hospital for treatment of burns. The mother and baby escaped.
The dead were identified as Jimmie Clyde Roe, 29, and his four-year-old daughter, Billie Jean Roe.
Hospitalized at Little Rock are Robert Roe, 7, and Jimmy Clyde Roe Jr., 6, The mother, Mrs. Norma Jean Roe, 23, and her 18-month-old son, Ronald, were uninjured.
Firemen said the father, who apparently discovered the fire about 12:05 a.m. managed to get Mrs. Roe and the baby out of the house, then returned for Robert and Jimmy Clyde.
After escaping from the burning home with his two sons, the father plunged into the flames a second time in an effort to save the daughter, Bille Jean. Both were killed.
The two injured children were flown to Little Rock by Rogers Contractor F. G. Larimore in a private plane. Their conditions were described as serious.
The Rogers Fire Department responded to the alarm with all of its equipment, but was badly handicapped by lack of water. Firemen hauled water from a water main at City Hall a mile from the fire, and brought the flames under control about 1:30 a.m.
Funeral arrangements will he announced by Burns Funeral Home of Rogers.
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Times
Monday, March 22, 1965
Rogers Fire Claims Two More Lives
ROGERS -- An early Saturday morning house fire which claimed the lives of a father and his four-year-old daughter, brought death to two yesterday.
Funeral services for the father and three of his children will be conducted this afternoon at the Burns Chapel in Rogers.
Jimmy Clyde Roe, 29, and his daughter, Billie Jean Roe, died in the fire. The father brought his two sons out of the burning house and went back in to get Billie Jean. The mother, Norma Jean, 23, and an 18-month old son, Ronald Dean, escaped without injury.
Jimmy Clyde Roe, Jr., 6, and Robert Charles Roe, 7, died in Arkansas Baptist Hospital in Little Rock where they were taken by plane early Saturday.
Cause of the fire was undetermined.
Burial will be in the Rogers cemetery.
Contributed on 1/15/13 by wfields55
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