Arline Wegesin

Arline Helen Wegesin, 103, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 24 at the Homestead at Towne Center in Van Wert. Arline was born on February 26, 1922 in the home of her maternal grandparents in Paulding County near the town of Grover Hill. She was the first child of the late George and Leota (Sutton) Rager. She moved with her parents to Convoy, Ohio that same year where her parents opened a bakery. Arline attended Tully-Convoy School and graduated in 1940. She was proud to have been selected as Maid of Honor for the Peony Festival Queen of 1940. She married Walter Bricker at Scott Army Airfield, Illinois in 1942. Walter was killed in action over Italy in 1943. After the war, she married Godfrey Rogers in 1946 and together they operated Rogers Bakery in Convoy but closed the business after Godfrey’s untimely death from a stroke in 1976. Arline then married Ralph Wegesin in 1980 and he died in 2001. Arline was a talented gardener, seamstress, knitter, painter, and cake decorator. She loved to travel in her younger years and enjoyed reading. She was a life-long member of the former Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Convoy and was active in local research, sorority, garden, and spinning clubs. She is survived by her daughters and sons: Carolyn Tyas of Van Wert, Donna (Mel Hochstetler) Holloway of Fort Wayne, Gerald (Beth) Imperial-Rogers of Fort Wayne, and Glenn (Dora) Rogers of Fort Wayne; a brother, William (Cristina) Rager of Los Angeles; grandchildren: Jennifer (David) Daugherty, Jason (Brooke) Tyas, Melissa (Andrew) Hitzemann, Robin Hermann, Aljon Imperial-Rogers, Nathaniel (Kayla) Rogers, Emily (Jeffrey) Kleykamp, Benjamin (Ariel) Baker-Rogers, and 15 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a sister, Marcile (Gould) Weaver, son-in-law, Floyd Tyas, and a granddaughter, Caitlyn Imperial-Rogers.

A memorial service is planned for Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 4:30 pm at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Van Wert officiated by Rev. William Haggis II.  Visitation will be from 3:00 to 4:00 preceding the service.  Arline's cremains will be interred along side the grave of her husband, Godfrey, in I.O.O.F. Cemetery near Convoy.  

Preferred memorials are to the Village of Convoy Historical Society at villageofconvoyhistoricalsociety.com or to EverHeart Hospice at everhearthospice.org.

Brickner Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.