Will Rogers Memorial Claremore. Other family members interred there are Rogers' wife, Betty (1879–1944), three of their four children: Fred Stone Rogers (1918–1920), Mary Amelia Rogers Brooks (1913–1989), and James Blake (Jim) Rogers (1915–2000). Jim's wife, Marguerite Astrea Kemmler Rogers (1917–1987) as well as Jim's oldest son, James Kemmler (Kem) Rogers (1939–2014) are also interred there. On March 7, 2016, Governor Mary Fallin signed Senate Bill 1570 into law, which put the Will Rogers Memorial Commission, which governed both the Will Rogers Memorial Museum and the Dog Iron Ranch, Will Rogers' birthplace in Oologah, under the control of the Oklahoma Historical Society. The
Will Rogers Memorial Center Worth Texans ice hockey team. Events at the WRMC attract over 2 million visitors annually. The complex contains the following facilities: The Memorial Center was built in 1936 and designed by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick, who employed the Moderne (Art Deco) style. Also in 1936 Amon G. Carter commissioned Electra Waggoner Biggs to create the statue "Riding into the Sunset", a tribute to Will Rogers and his horse Soapsuds. Over a decade later, in 1947, the work was unveiled at the Center. On March 22, 2016, the complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Will Rogers