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Funeral March 11 for Miracles founder Bobby Rogers

BY: AP Staff Writer MARCH 4, 2013 | MODIFIED: MARCH 4, 2013 AT 9:00 PM
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Photo - FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo, members of the Motown group The Miracles, from left: William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson, and Robert "Bobby" Rogers, are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Rogers, a founding member of the group and a collaborator with Smokey, has died. Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at his home. He was 73. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo, members of the Motown group The Miracles, from left: William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson, and Robert "Bobby" Rogers, are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Rogers, a founding member of the group and a collaborator with Smokey, has died. Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at his home. He was 73. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
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DETROIT (AP) — A funeral is planned March 11 for Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group the Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson,

Rogers died Sunday at his home in the Detroit suburb of Southfield. He was 73.

The service is at 11 a.m. at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit. James H. Cole Home for Funerals says visitation is 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday at its Northwest Chapel.

Burial is at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.

Rogers formed the Miracles in 1956 with cousin Claudette Rogers, Pete Moore, Ronnie White and Robinson. Their hits included "Shop Around," ''You've Really Got a Hold on Me," ''The Tracks of My Tears," ''Going to a Go-Go," ''I Second That Emotion" and "The Tears of a Clown."

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