Couple killed after visiting all 50 states

June 05, 2011

Filed in: The Way We Live Now

I’m not going to be gross and try in any way to connect my experience with this story, other than to say my hair stood on end when I read the headline, and this couple has been in my thoughts these past few days. I love that they were out there in the world and on the road in their 70s.

MANCHESTER, CONN.
Couple killed after visiting all 50 states
June 3, 2011

Friends say a Connecticut couple completed their quest to visit every state in the country before they were killed crossing a road in Ohio. Longtime friends say that Keith and Doreen Rodgers of Manchester, Conn., had just finished the last leg of their 50-state quest by visiting Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio. The natives of England were killed Saturday when they were struck by a minivan in Liberty Township, Ohio. The driver whose vehicle struck them has not been charged; the accident remains under investigation. Police say that Keith Rodgers, 73, died at the scene and that Doreen Rodgers, 71, died later at a local hospital. (AP)