{"id":167790,"date":"2019-03-20T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167790"},"modified":"2019-03-22T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T01:46:22","slug":"celebration-of-life-riley-rogers-mar-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167790","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Life, Riley Rogers March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RileyRogersIII.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-167806\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RileyRogersIII-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RileyRogersIII-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RileyRogersIII-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RileyRogersIII.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 A celebration of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167792\">the Life of Riley Rogers <\/a>will be held on Friday March 22, 2019, at Congregational United Church of Christ in Valley City at 3-p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The former Valley City Mayor passed away on February 12, 2019 in Fargo at 93.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Mayor of Valley City for 12 years from 1994 to 2006.<\/p>\n<p>He was quoted as saying, \u201cValley City is the finest in the country, and I\u2019ve worked with some of the finest people. That\u2019s been the story of my life. Who could ask for more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Video of Riley Rogers Retirement Tribute, June 2006<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheReplayChannel%2Fvideos%2F1967115486749604%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Riley was an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Saratoga in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>He attended then known as Jamestown College, with Majors in Biology and Chemistry, while a member of the Jimmies track and football teams.<\/p>\n<p>He acted as the Pharmacy Compliance Officer for the State of North Dakota for several years.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he was humbled by the integrity of the many people with whom he worked side by side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 A celebration of\u00a0 the Life of Riley Rogers will be held on Friday March 22, 2019, at Congregational United Church of Christ in Valley City at 3-p.m. The former Valley City Mayor passed away on February 12, 2019 in Fargo at 93. He served as Mayor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167790"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167929,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167790\/revisions\/167929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}