Man believed to have died after death notice in paper
Friends call to check up on friend
Charles Rogers (80) had to check his pulse for life when a friend phoned him to ask if he was still alive.
”I was delighted to see I was fine,” Rogers told the City Times at his Northmead home on June 25.
”I checked the pulse just to make quite sure it was hunky-dory.”
A friend called Rogers to check up on him after people thought he had died after seeing a death notice in the City Times for a Charles John Rogers.
The 80-year-old’s name is in fact John Charles Rogers, but almost everyone knows him as Charles Rogers.
Rogers, who is affectionately known as The Tree Fella, or ”Die Boom Oom”, has received a few concerned phone calls.
He jokingly said he is fine.
”Only the good die young, I am fruitful for quite a few years,” said Rogers.
”I reckon it will be a laugh if I am still going when I get to 90.”
Rogers said he has been a tree feller since 1988 and called himself the tree feller after phoning a client.
The client’s daughter answered the phone and yelled to her father that ”pa, dit is die oom vir die boom” (dad, it’s the uncle for the tree) was on the phone.
Rogers expressed his condolences to the family of Charles John Rogers.
