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Compassionate Denton County LOSS Team receives Just One More grant to help families grieving after suicide of loved one

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WARNING: This post discusses suicide.

Denton County LOSS Team is doing such important work for families who have lost a loved one to suicide. While it sounds gruesome, the team is doing the very important and compassionate work of paying for clean up after a family’s loved one dies by suicide.

This is something you don’t have to think about until it tragically happens to you and your family. The team is located in Texas where the #1 method used in suicide is gunshot wound. It can cost more than $3,500 to get a proper biohazard cleanup after something as horrendous as a suicide takes place. Often this is inside a family’s home. Not surprisingly, many families are not in the proper head space to be able to coordinate something like a proper clean up. They also are vulnerable to be taken advantage of at such a difficult time. This is where TEAM Deanton comes in, coordinating and paying for cleaning services.

Their mission and story touched our founder, Richard Rogers, who lost his own father to suicide more than 40 years ago. See Richard share the good news that Just One More Foundation is granting TEAM Denton a generous award so they can continue to help more families.

If you are in crisis, please call: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255 or 988.

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In 1979, brothers Richard and Steve Rogers made a vow in raging rainstorm following their father’s death by suicide.

Leonard Rogers suffered from mental illness and alcoholism and a lifetime of living up to his father’s success building the United States Stove Company.

Realizing their father had run the company to the verge of bankruptcy, the brothers vowed to bring the company back and restore their family name.

Together, they beat incredible odds, giving their family company just one more chance to make it.

The hard work, grit, and in some ways luck that led to that comeback story have gone onto to inspire Just One More Foundation, dedicated to giving second chances.

Here the brothers tell the story of their father’s suicide and the night they made the vow that would change their lives and the fate of their family’s company.

Resilience, Tragedy, & Tenacity tells the story of S.L. Rogers, Sr. and his descendants.

Buy the book!

It’s a story that reads like a Hollywood movie.

In 1898, Richard and Steve Rogers’ grandfather was a determined 16-year-old determined to leave his family’s abusive home in small town Tennessee. He  went on to become one of the most powerful men in southeastern Tennessee both in business and politics.

“Resilience, Tragedy, & Tenacity: 150 Years of the U.S. Stove Story & The Family of S.L. Rogers, Sr.”  tells the story of this family’s many generations of struggle and triumph.

Read this book to better understand how S.L. Rogers’ grandson, Richard, was inspired to start this unique, inspirational movement, Just One More Foundation.

In 2020 Richard decided it was time to chronicle his family’s story.  He commissioned former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan to undertake the project. Over the course of two years, Daryn interviewed more than 20 descendants of S.L. Rogers, Sr. and a number of current and former company employees.

The process of working on the book and closely examining his story and his family’s story, Richard began to see that his most important life’s work had just begun.

He’s determined to use his good fortune to help people who want to put hard work into overcoming their obstacles.

Richard also believes in the power of storytelling. Just One More Foundation is dedicated to telling the stories of people who have overcome their obstacles in order to provide hope to those who are still struggling.