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The Dutch
Member/Member
Corpus Christi Country Club

Frederick Funston (Dutch) Rogers was born in Dilley (southwest of San Antonio), Texas on
November 20, 1915. Dutch was the youngest of nine (9) children in a hardworking and loving
family. After graduating from Dilley High School, where he was Valedictorian, Dutch enrolled
at the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduating from UT, Dutch started on his medical

journey at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston, Texas. Dutch earned his
medical license on July 29, 1940 after graduating with honors on May 31, 1940.

While attending medical school, Dutch met the love of his life, Elizabeth Wilson, who was
proclaimed to be the most beautiful girl in Galveston and the “Galveston Ball High School
Dancing Queen.” Dutch and Elizabeth were married on August 24, 1940. Together they raised
four (4) children; Rick, Elizabeth, Hamilton and Pat. Dutch and Elizabeth were happily married
for 59 years.

Dutch served this great country during World War II as a surgeon and Major in the Army
Medical Corps where he was deployed to the Pacific Theater. For his service, Dutch was
honored with the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon, two Bronze Stars and the American Theater

Ribbon Victory Medal.

In 1948, Dutch moved his family from Galveston to Corpus Christi where he began his long
and very successful medical practice as a surgeon. As part of his medical service, Dutch was a

member of the Texas Surgical Society, American Medical Association, Texas Medical
Association and the Nueces County Medical Society. Dutch also served as Chief of Staff at
Spohn Hospital from 1955 through 1956. Dutch retired from his medical practice after fifty
years of devoted service.

In 1951, Dutch joined the Corpus Christi Country Club where his love for the game of golf
began. Besides his love of family and the medical profession, hunting and golf were his
passions. Dutch once said that “golf is not a game…it is a way of life.” Dutch instilled that love
for the game in his three sons: Rick, Hamilton and Pat. All four of them spent many hours

practicing and studying the game together. Every time his golfing sons would tell him they
wanted new clubs because the old ones did not work anymore, Dutch would adamantly tell
each one of them that “It’s not the fiddle, it is the fiddler.” One Christmas, Dutch presented a

hardbound book to his sons and his son-in-law Rox Covert, All I Know About Golf by Dr. F.F.
Rogers. The magic key was in the book, so they thought! When they opened the book…all of
the pages were blank. Dutch would just laugh.