Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Roles, Dr. Charles Leon February 1957
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"The Camilla Enterprise" dated 28 Feb 1958
Obituary of Dr. Charles Leon Roles as written on pages 1 and 12 of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 28 Feb 1957.  Camilla, Georgia.  For the second time in 
recent weeks Mitchell County has lost by death one of its elder physicians.  
Dr. C. A. Stevenson Sr., who began practice in 1908 in Camilla and had around 
fifty years of service to his credit, died in a fire at his home the early part 
of the month.  Last Sunday evening, near midnight, the body of Dr. C. L. Roles 
was discovered in an Atlanta hotel room where he was awaiting an appointment 
the next day with his doctor.  Dr. Roles began his practice of medicine in 
Camilla in 1916 and thus served around thirty-eight years before his retirement 
four years ago following a heart attack.  Actually his retirement was only semi-
retirement for he continued to serve every Friday at the weekly clinic held at 
the Mitchell County Public Health Center and had served as usual last Friday, 
two days before he died.  Dr. Roles had been sick last week and a patient 
several days at Mitchell County Hospital.  He decided to go to Atlanta Saturday 
to see his physician, making the trip by bus and reaching there in the 
afternoon.  He took a room at a small family hotel, the Capitol Hotel, located 
on the site of the old boarding home where he stayed when he went to medical 
school.  At eleven o'clock the next morning a hotel maid knocked on the door to 
go in and clean up and he asked her to come back later.  Around two-thirty 
o'clock someone at the hotel desk phoned his room and when there was no answer 
they thought he was out for lunch.  At ten-thirty o'clock Sunday evening the 
hotel again phoned his room and when no answer came this time they decided to 
go into the room because something might be amiss.  An elderly bell hop who 
knew Dr. Roles personally ripped the screen from the window and entered to 
discover his fully clothed body laying across the bed.  His socks were on but 
the shoes were not and it was figured the exertion of stooping to put on and 
tie his shoes was too much and brought on the final attack.  The coroner's 
report said that he must have died shortly after the maid had knocked on his 
door at eleven o'clock that morning and that death was seemingly 
instantaneously.  Funeral services took place at three o'clock Tuesday 
afternoon from the residence of his brother, Albert R. Roles, on Broad Street.  
The Rev. Louis Spivey, pastor of Camilla Methodist Church, and Rev. N. H. 
Williams, retired, officiated.  Interment was in Oakview Cemetery with Bramlett 
Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.  Pallbearers were Dan Palmer Sr., 
Wilson Rivers, Jim Williford, Bob Taylor, Hugh Allen, Murray Simmons, Frank 
Palmer and A. E. Crow.  Besides his brother, A. R. Roles, Dr. Roles is survived 
by one sister, Mrs. J. C. Palmer, and several nieces and nephews.  Dr. Roles 
passed his 72nd birthday last September.  He was born and reared in Camilla, 
the son of Charles Albert Roles and Anna Burnett Roles.  Dr. Roles was a 
newspaperman in early life, before he decided to enter the medical profession.  
It was in 1907 when as a young member of the staff of The Camilla Enterprise 
that he bought a half interest in the paper and became a partner and joint 
publisher of The Camilla Enterprise along with Walter A. Allen, the latter 
serving as editor.  IN 1908 Mr. Allen wanted to go to Largo, Fla., so he sold 
his half interest in The Camilla Enterprise to Oscar J. Culpepper, the paper 
then jointly owned and published by Messers Culpepper and Roles.  All this time 
Dr. Roles was yearning to study medicine byt had not made a definite decision.  
In 1912 he finally made up his mind completely about a medical career so he 
sold his interest to Oscar J. Culpepper, the sole owner then.  Dr. Roles then 
went to Atlanta where he entered Atlanta Medical College, later Emory 
University, receiving his degree four years later in 1916.  Dr. Roles never 
quite lost his interest in the newspaper business and The Camilla Enterprise.  
He lent much assistance last year when work was being done on the Centennial 
Edition and it was a very great source of pleasure for him, his family said, 
when he rode on The Camilla Enterprise float in the Centennial Parade and 
represented one of the original partners in the business.

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