Certainly, her overprotective mothering contributed to the little boy’s shy and withdrawn nature.īut what is even more clear is that her absolute devotion, along with her extraordinary generosity, contributed essential ingredients to Fred Rogers’s developing character and gave him the resilience to overcome an introverted, sometimes sickly (with severe asthma), and sheltered childhood. Children love to belong, they long to belong.” 4 More than anyone else in Fred’s life, his mother gave him that unconditional love. Sixty-five years later, Fred Rogers would say in a television interview: “Nothing can replace the influence of unconditional love in the life of a child. During much of it, Ronnie, the family’s Pomeranian dog, was huddled under the birth bed, adding its voice to that of Nancy as she struggled. 2 Her doctor had warned Nancy Rogers that the baby’s birth could be hard for such a small woman. Jim Rogers and his young bride, also dark-haired and attractive, made a striking couple in this small but growing industrial city in western Pennsylvania in the mid1920s.įred McFeely Rogers was born on March 20, 1928, in Latrobe in the McFeely house, a handsome, old brick home at 705 Main Street. The Good Neighbor PDF Book by Maxwell KING Name of BookĪ handsome, dark-haired young man who had finished his engineering studies at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh. Nancy’s first baby was coming two and a half years after her marriage to James Hillis Rogers.

She wanted to be sure that she would have as much help and support as possible for what might be a hard delivery.

Nancy McFeely Rogers had come back to her parents’ house in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, forty miles southeast of Pittsburgh, just before Fred Rogers was born. Click here to Download The Good Neighbor PDF Book by Maxwell KING Language English having PDF Size 5.1 MB and No of Pages 389.

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