Ervin C. Roggerman was born in Dundee, Michigan on January 24, 1910 as the first child of Ralph Raymond and Addie (Getty) Roggerman.

In June, 1927, he graduated from Dundee High School.

He was first married to Frances McDonald who was born July 8, 1910 and died August 21, 1968. They had three daughters.

In 1969, Ervin married Alice (Heyden) Gee who was born February 6, 1920 and died September 5, 1988 in Farwell, Michigan. They did not have children.

According to his WWII draft registration, Ervin was 5' 11" and weighed 155 lbs.

He moved around the country during his adult years, living in several places in the Lansing area while working for General Motors, in Grant Michigan where he managed a restaurant, in Farwell in Clare County and Monmouth, Park County, Wyoming where he ran a convenience store and worked as a park ranger in Yellowstone National Park in the late 1960s. His father's 1982 obituary has him living in Texas.

Ervin died in Farwell on May 17, 1983.
 

Some sources give Ervin and his younger brother, Kenneth, the nickname "Rocky".


Ervin Roggerman was named after his paternal grandfather, Ervin Getty (right). For both of them, we have found their first names spelled several different ways including Irvin, Irving, Irwin and Erwin.

Ervin (39) and Lena (36) Getty were living near Ridgeway in Lenawee County with their children Floss (17), Blanche (12), Veyirl (8) and Alice (5). Their eldest daughter, Adeline (21) and her husband, Ralph Raymond Roggerman (24) were living with them along with their newborn first child, Ervin (<1).
Listed as "Irvin", Ervin (9) was living with his parents, Ralph (31) and Addie (28) and siblings, Bernice (7), Mildred (5) and Lewis (1). Their census record was shown immediately above the listing for Ralph's father, Charles Roggerman and his family.
At this time, Ervin (20) and his wife, Frances (20) were living at 1022 Kalamazoo Street in Lansing, Michigan. Ervin was working at the Fisher Body plant. A man named Spatford Ball was listed as being a lodger with them.
Ervin (30) and Frances (30) lived in Grand Ledge, Michigan just to the west of Lansing. They had three daughters, Janet (7), Joan (5) and Charlene (3). Ervin was shown as an auto factory utility man and he earned about $1,500 per year.
By this time, they lived in the town of Grant in Clare County. Ervin (40) and Frances (40) and their daughters, Janet (17), Joan (14) and Charlene (12) were there while Ervin worked as a manager of a restaurant.

Roggerman or Roggeman or Roggermann? In U.S. Census forms, the name is listed as either Roggerman or Roggeman. With the exception of Charles Roggerman's (right) youngest child, George who chose to use the name Roggeman without the "r", the rest of the family regularly used Roggerman.

In some German records it is spelled Roggermann and that is how it appears on the headstone for Charles, the ancestor who came from Germany although he used Roggerman during his life in America... from what we can tell.