Roger Leon Isaac
1944 – 2025
On May 28, 2025, Roger Leon Isaac passed from this planet to meet his Lord and Savior.
Roger was born July 21, 1944, the son of the late Winfred Isaac and the late Deline Cobb of Gobler, Missouri. He was preceded in death by his favorite Aunt Maudine Burdette of Alabama, sisters Rutha Bea Shrum, Patricia Ann Davis, brothers Donald Isaac and Ronald Isaac. He is survived by a sister Bonnie Lee Owens, wife Bonnie Daniels Isaac of Kennett, Missouri and by Nancy Parker Isaac, mother of his two daughters, Candye/ (Dwight) Wynn, and Robyn/ (Todd) Segress. He was the proud grandparent of Madolyn/(Jack) Wynn Henderson, Greyson Wynn, Noah Wynn, Olivia/(Aaron) Wynn Metcalf, Parker Hattey, Jacob Hattey, and Makenzie Hattey. The proud great grandparents of Aria Hattey, Amelia Hattey, Paden Hattey, and Cohen Hattey.
Roger grew up in a period that shaped and molded people by the struggles of life survival. Roger's first job was picking cotton by hand for three cents per pound at the age of seven with the wages being put into the family fund to provide food for the family. Work ethic and love of family continued from that point on. Roger later enlisted into the United States Air Force at the age of seventeen to help find a direction into something better. During this time of enlistment, Roger received his GED diploma and later some college classes where he maintained a 3.85 GPA. The military taught him endurance and perseverance, which we believe led to one of his most common statements of advice-" You can do anything for a year, in fact you can hold your breath for a year if your family needs it" After the military, Roger spent time in multiple careers ranging from home construction, police officer, truck driver/owner, transportation terminal manager, freight salesman, even becoming a poultry farmer. One thing that was consistent in these careers was his personality. Roger had the natural ability to fill up the room and capture people's attention and hearts. He was affectionally referred to as "Big Rog." Big Rog not only because of his physical build and strength but also due to his ability to be the family defender. Roger did not go looking for trouble but could end it if circumstances dictated it. The one area that would be the red line for a person would be anyone wanting to harm a person in his family.
The life experiences that Roger lived through in the past 80 plus years made him a perfect person for people to reach out to for advice or to use as a sounding board. For his daughters, Candye, and Robyn, he could always make things right and fix whatever the problem was. Roger had multiple talents and hobbies. He was self-taught in most of these. His love for the smell of wood as he built furniture for various people ranked high on the list, but his favorite was crappie fishing and fish fries.
As Roger aged, younger generations would hear the stories of Big Rog and sometimes question the secondhand stories of the legend, but there would be too many people with the same undisputed facts. When asked what would be the one word that that means the most to Roger? Love. The last part of his life had been marked with health struggles, but we believe that God kept seeing him through these health challenges because he still had a mission for Roger. That mission was to make sure the people he knew would hear the Love of Jesus Christ and he wanted people to know this fact and pray that they would accept Jesus as their Savior.
Graveside Services will be held at Bloomfield Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Missouri on Tuesday June 3, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.