John Rogers Temple

OPENED 24 Aug 2026 (K321) AND FOUND UNUSABLE - recorded here so nobody opens it again. The record indexes exactly three fields: Name 'John', Gender 'Male', Spouse 'Shari Temple'. IT CARRIES NO DEATH DATE AT ALL, so it cannot corroborate any death. Its citation reads 'Publication Place: City, Tennessee, USA' - the literal word 'City', and the wrong state - and its source URL, tributes.com/obituary/print_selections/96534847, returns HTTP 410 Gone with NO Wayback Machine capture, so it is unrecoverable at source. Ancestry's own banner says the collection's facts 'were found using artificial intelligence technology and may contain errors'. Given only 'John' plus 'Shari Temple' it could as easily index HIS WIFE's obituary as his own. DO NOT CITE IT FOR A DEATH FACT. (An empty ActualText reads as 'never opened'; this one has now been opened, and the finding is negative.)

Register K321; captures in ancestry/sources/temple-179-john-rogers-death-2026-08-24/. MEMORIAL FIELDS: Birth 9 Dec 1935, McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas. Death 19 Jul 2022 (aged 86), Nolan County, Texas. Burial Temple Family Cemetery, Busby, Fisher County, Texas. FROM THE TRANSCRIBED OBITUARY: 'He died peacefully at his home in Sweetwater, TX'; 'the ranch in Nolan County where he lived for the last 45 years'; 'John was laid to rest next to his precious bride on Sunday, July 24th in an intimate graveside service attended by members of the immediate family'; 'He and Shari had four children, Deborah Doak, Keith Temple, Karen Graves, and Roger Temple. There are 13 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren'; memorial service 29 Oct 2022 at Beltway Park Church North, Abilene. 'Published by Sweetwater Reporter from Nov. 1 to Nov. 2, 2022.' -- IDENTIFICATION, five independent matches to this database: birth 9 Dec 1935 Hidalgo Co. (E813); father Thomas Lewis Latane Temple Jr 1887-1947 = [68]; mother Madeline Potter Grote 1908-1981 = [172]; spouse Shari Lynn West Temple 1936-2013 m. 1955 = [267] (b. 27 Apr 1936, d. 7 Sep 2013, F113 m. 4 Feb 1955); HALF sibling Helen Hal Christine Temple Allan 1911-1989 = [106], who is a half sibling here too (F24 vs F44); and exactly four children, matching F113. Identity is not in doubt. -- GRADE: DERIVATIVE AND SINGLE-WITNESS. This is a Find A Grave memorial carrying a transcribed newspaper obituary, not an original record. The date 19 Jul 2022 rests on this one artifact. The independent second witness - the Sweetwater Reporter itself, 1-2 Nov 2022, on Newspapers.com - has NOT been obtained. -- INTERNAL CONFLICT, recorded not smoothed: the memorial header says '(aged 86)' and its obituary prose says 'at age 87'. Born 9 Dec 1935 and dead 19 Jul 2022 he was 86, so the header is right and the prose is wrong. -- CONSISTENCY CHECK: '24 July 2022' is confirmed a SUNDAY by computation, matching the obituary's 'Sunday, July 24th'. -- A Texas death certificate exists and was NOT sought: Texas restricts certificates for 25 years, so a 2022 death is not obtainable until 2047.

Register K323. EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY, recorded 24 Aug 2026: Owen Temple states that he was present at John Rogers Temple's funeral in 2022. -- WHY IT MATTERS: before this, the death of 19 Jul 2022 rested on ONE derivative artifact - Find A Grave memorial 245261513 and the obituary it transcribes (K321) - and BOTH Ancestry 'obituary' records offered as corroboration had been examined and rejected (one dateless with a dead URL, the other actually his WIFE's 2013 obituary indexed under his name). This is the first INDEPENDENT confirmation the fact has had, and it is direct rather than documentary: a person who was there. -- WHAT IT DOES AND DOES NOT SETTLE. It independently confirms that John Rogers Temple died and was buried in 2022, which is the fact the published site turned on. It does NOT by itself fix the DAY - the informant gave the year. -- THE AMBIGUITY IS RESOLVED (K324, asked and answered 24 Aug 2026). The obituary describes TWO gatherings and the witness attended the SECOND: the MEMORIAL SERVICE, Saturday 29 OCTOBER 2022, at ABILENE (Beltway Park Church North). He did NOT attend the graveside service of Sunday 24 July 2022 at the Temple Family Cemetery, Busby, which the obituary calls 'an intimate graveside service attended by members of the immediate family'. -- CONSEQUENCE, AND IT CUTS THE UNHELPFUL WAY: THE BURIAL DATE IS NOT EYEWITNESSED. Burial E9230, 24 Jul 2022, rests on the obituary alone and stays derivative and single-witness. -- WHAT THE TESTIMONY DOES ESTABLISH: the MEMORIAL SERVICE HAPPENED. The obituary states it only prospectively - 'Memorial services will be held at 10:00 am on Saturday, October 29th' - and a prospective announcement is evidence of a plan, not of an event. A witness who was in the room reports the event. He independently supplies the DAY and the PLACE, and 29 Oct 2022 is confirmed a SATURDAY by computation, matching the obituary. Together with the death itself this remains the only independent corroboration of a 2022 death that otherwise rests on one derivative artifact.