Anna Phillips Clarke RogersDeveloper

Anna Phillips Clarke Rogers, 101, among the first women in the Washington area to own a residential development company, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 25 at her home in Landover.

Mrs. Rogers, a fifth-generation Washingtonian, was president and principal owner of A.C. Rogers Construction Co. in Rogers Heights, from the 1930s until her retirement in the late 1960s.

Her company built many two-story brick houses in Riverdale, Rogers Heights, Mount Rainier and Cottage City in Prince George's County. According to an advertisement from the late 1930s, prices of the new houses ranged from $4,550 to $5,990.

Mrs. Rogers was born on New Jersey Avenue NE on Capitol Hill. Her family's home was on a site now occupied by part of the Cannon House Office Building. She graduated from the old St. Cecilia's High School in Washington and attended George Washington University and the University of Maryland.

In 1945, Mrs. Rogers and her husband purchased Beall's Pleasure, a historic house in Landover built in 1794 by Benjamin Stoddard, the first secretary of the Navy. The house, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, remained her family home until her death.

In 1962, she and her husband bought Montpelier of Moores Plains, an estate near Upper Marlboro that they used as a farm for cattle, horses, corn and fox hunting.

Since the 1930s, Mrs. Rogers had belonged to many political, social and historical organizations. She was a member of several Democratic party women's clubs and also was a member of the Washington Club; the Marlborough Hunt Club; the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812; Daughters of the American Revolution; the Pilgrims of St. Mary's, a Maryland historical organization; the General Society of Mayflower Descendants; and the Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy.

Her husband of 39 years, James Webb Rogers, died in 1965.

A son, William Harris Rogers, died in 1994.

Survivors include four sons, James Webb Rogers Jr. of Davidsonville, Phillips Clarke Rogers of Fair Haven, John Whitson Rogers of Boca Raton, Fla., and Joseph Shepperd Rogers of Landover; 16 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.

Lora Billie Flippen EllisExecutive Secretary

Lora Billie Flippen Ellis, 96, a former executive secretary with a trade association, died Aug. 28 of cardiac arrest at Inova Alexandria Hospital. She was a resident of Goodwin House, a retirement home in Alexandria.