Rogers and Charlotte Romero

Biography of Rogers Romero

Rogers was born in Biloxi, MS on 31 October 1935, to Adolph Romero, a fisherman and Wilda Sellers. Rogers joined the United States Marine Corps in 1955 after graduating from Abbeville High School. He served for 4 years and was a drill instructor for his last two years prior to completing his commitment.

Upon exiting the Marine Corps in 1959, he attended SLI for a short time and chose to exit from college in pursuit of work and to get married. He was employed by Otis Pressure Control, a division of Halliburton. His career began as a “D” helper, bottom of the totem pole. He worked his way up to “A” operator, supervisor, district and division manager and regional service consultant in New Orleans and then rose to be Operations Manager worldwide for the Blowout Recover Team.

Between 1959 and 1985, Rogers worked on many oil and gas wells, of which some were troubled wells. He managed to solved problems. Some of these wells were blowouts or near blowouts and he was able to solve both while a well had blown out or was to prevent a near blowout. Commendations were given to Rogers for successes in the manner he was able to perform his job to the satisfaction of the company.

In 1985, prior to being transferred to Houston, Rogers was given the task of starting up what the main officers of the company wanted him to develop, a blowout team. After working 3 months on that project, those officers accepted the proposal that Rogers had drawn up. Once the proposal was accepted, they wanted him to move from Belle Chasse to Houston, Texas. There he worked in conjunction with firefighters, Red Adair, Boots and Coots and Wild Well Control.

Retiring from Otis in 1991, he continued working in the oil industry as a consultant in the well control field until 2001.

In 2010, he joined the Sons of the American Revolution to celebrate the honor of his patriot ancestor, Claude Broussard, who fought with the Attakapas Militia under the command of Governor/General Bernardo de Galvez. Rogers continues to research his ancestors who fought to save our country from the British. He has three supplemental ancestors on his Spanish side, and one being processed. In 2013, he volunteered to be the genealogist for the society. In 2016, he became the president of the society, a position he continued to hold until December of 2016.

His pride and joy are researching his own genealogy and helping friends to research their family histories and genealogies. His passion is to tell the world about the coming together of the Acadians, Malaguenos (Spanish directly from Malaga, Spain) and the Islenos (Spanish from the Canary Islands), recruited by Gov. Galvez of Louisiana during the American Revolution.

Since 2008, Rogers has been working on improving his Cajun language experience. Never having had formal lessons in French, he had started going to French Tables in and around New Iberia, Lafayette, Rayne, Kaplan, Abbeville and any other places that have French Tables. In 2009, friends of his, started up a French Table in New Iberia, today it is called, La Table Francois du Bayou Teche. Rogers is the host of two of those French Tables, one being live in New Iberia and the other one was started in the early days of the pandemic, which is done virtually via Zoom. The attendees come from different towns to attend the live sessions and from all parts of the world for the Virtual sessions. Examples of the areas where they come from are; France, Argentina, Canada, different parts of the United States, such as Illinois, California, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana towns such as Lafayette, Thibodeaux, Arnaudville, Baton Rouge and New Iberia.

Today, Rogers has settled down to exercising two of his passions, Genealogy and French Tables. A quote that was made several years ago, seems to fit Rogers’ style of doing things, and that is “I am just an ordinary man, possessing no shining talents. Anything I have achieved; I owe to my capacity for hard work and never giving up.” by Hideki Tojo (Prime minister and General of the Japanese Army, during World War II).

Biography of Charlotte Boudreaux Romero

Charlotte was born in Abbeville, Louisiana on 3 March 1941, and was raised there. She was born to Charles Joseph Boudreaux and Eloise Emily Martin. Charlotte attended Abbeville High School and graduated in 1959. She remained in Abbeville until her marriage on 23 April 1960. She has been married to Rogers Romero for 62 years. During that marriage, she had three children.

Charlotte began driving a school bus in Belle Chasse, two years after arriving and she drove for eight years, tending to her house and children, while Rogers was working for Otis. With all the children grown and gone, she and Rogers moved to Houston due to a transfer in June of 1985. Shortly after arriving, in September, she began driving a school bus for Humble Independent School District (Humble, Texas).

Charlotte and Rogers moved from Houston to New Iberia, after Charlotte retiring from her job in May of 1992. Charlotte immediately started enjoying her retirement by playing bourre with friends living in New Iberia from the first time. Not long after, she was having lunch once a month with her classmates and playing Mexican Train (a domino game) with the same group until the pandemic took effect. Another of her passions, is attending French Tables weekly and dancing with a group called CFMA (Cajun French Music Association) and attending meetings at the SAR (Sons of the American Revolution), once every other month, with Rogers.

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