Will Rogers wait to die so it can be carved. Rogers was born on his parents' Dog Iron Ranch in the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory, near present-day Oologah, Oklahoma. The house in which he was born had been built in 1875 and was known as the "White House on the Verdigris River". His parents, Clement Vann Rogers (1839–1911) and Mary America Schrimsher (1838–1890), were both of mixed-race and Cherokee ancestry, and identified as Cherokee. Rogers was 9/32 (just over 1/4) Cherokee, with the remainder European American. Rogers quipped that his ancestors did not come over on the "Mayflower", but they "met
USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) reactor was modified to use an S3G core 3. She conducted additional deterrent deployments from Rota into 1978, bringing the total number of patrols she had conducted to 35. From the latter half of 1978 until November 1991 "Will Rogers" was forward deployed at Site One in Holy Loch, Scotland. On 9 November 1991, "Will Rogers" departed Site One, the last submarine to leave Holy Loch before Submarine Squadron 14, which had been based there, was deactivated. Deactivated while still in commission, "Will Rogers" entered the U.S Navys Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington on 2 November