J. Howard & Helen Rogers

J. Howard Rogers [1919 – 1999] was born and lived in the beautiful East Texas town of Paris, Texas. He was well-known in gospel music circles, as well as a Chamber of Commerce ambassador and Kiwanis Club member for many years. He was a charter member of the Southern Gospel Music Association of Texas, and was dean of the SGMA School of Music for 14 years. He sang in churches and sponsored gospel singings and promoted numerous concerts. He organized the Southernaires Quartet in 1956 and managed and sang with the group for over 40 years. His wife, Helen played the piano for the group most of those years and shared his love for gospel music, their wonderful family… and horses.

John & Eunice Morrison

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Eunice Campbell Morrison was a talented alto singer as a teenager traveling and singing with her father and brothers in the Campbell family through the oft-remembered singing convention period of the 1930’s. John and Eunice met at a gospel singing convention in Splendora, Texas in 1940. Eunice’s father, Carroll Campbell, immediately put John in the family quartet with Eunice to sing lead. They continued to sing together for over five decades and their talented children, Kent and Saundra, developed a great appreciation for Southern Gospel Music. In 1964, John opened the The East Texas Jamboree at Johnny Morrison’s Haybarn in Shepherd, Texas. This was a stage show for family entertainment that featured famous Bluegrass and Country artists from that era such as Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell and Bob Wills.