Juanita Taylor Phelps

Juanita Taylor Phelps, 72, died March 26, 2011. She was born in Bertram on April 17, 1938, to Tom Alson Taylor and Ellen Josephine Bird. She was known all her life as Nita. 
She was a homemaker for most of her life, but worked as a salesperson/trainer at Fotomat in Austin and then a hardware tester at Tellabs in Round Rock.
Her hobbies included genealogy, photography, music, reading, sewing, quilting, cooking and Texas history. She was a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and a very proud Texan. She also was a member of the Burnet County Historic Commission and Burnet County Heritage Society (Fort Croghan). She loved Fort Croghan and enjoyed playing the part of a pioneer woman and teaching children about their heritage.

She celebrated Texas heritage with a yearly trip to the Alamo, a place she dearly loved. She was known to correct the tour guides if they got wrong any facts. For the Texas Sesquicentennial celebration in 1986, she memorized all 183 names of the Alamo defenders.

She also was responsible for getting a state historical marker placed at the site of the Jackson Family Indian Massacre, a project she was very proud to be a part of.

She married her first husband Bill Rogers on May 21, 1955, and together they had six children. She and her second husband Franklin Phelps were married May 28, 1999. They had dated as young adults and reunited later in life.
Survivors include her husband of 12 years Franklin Phelps of Spicewood; children Shirley Karen Rogers Bruton and husband Robert of Georgetown, William Scott Rogers of Granite Shoals, Michael Royce Rogers and wife Vickie of Granite Shoals, Thomas Leslie Rogers and wife Suzanne of Spicewood, Patrick Wayne Rogers of Spicewood and Marilyn Anne Rogers Largent of Round Rock; five stepchildren; sister Barbara Taylor Carpenter of Arkansas; grandchildren Zachary Wayne Bruton, Rebecca Lauren Bruton, Benjamin Sloan Rogers, Samuel Slatter Lackey, Seth Scott Rogers, Sterling Royce Rogers, Jonathan Ryan Pulliam, Rachelle Renee Pulliam Morrow, Michael Zane Rogers, William Thomas Rogers, Tabitha Rashel Rogers, Michael Wayne Rogers, Stephen Taylor Largent and Christopher Morgan Largent; and 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brother Jimmy Alson Taylor; and first husband William Royce Rogers. 
A visitation is 6-8 p.m. March 30 at Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home, 306 E. Polk St. in 
Burnet. A service is 2 p.m. March 31 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Bear Creek Cemetery in Bertram. Pallbearers are her grandsons.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Burnet County Heritage Society (Fort Croghan), P.O. Box 74, Burnet, TX 78611.