[1][2][3] Rogers was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan,[4] to Lea and Leo Elery.
She earned a BA at Hillsdale College, where she received the Mattie King Bailey Music Scholarship.
[1][5] Rogers belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Cecilian Music Society, the National Federation of Music Clubs and Sigma Alpha Iota.
She received 46 special awards from ASCAP; first prize in the 1993 American Guild of English Handbell Ringers composer's contest; an Honorary Alumni Achievement Award from Hillsdale College; and an Honorary Life Membership in the American Guild of Organists (Detroit chapter).
In 1999, the Jeffers Handbell Supply Publishing Company named her Composer of the Year.