Obituaries:  Dr. Rolan Rivers Stoker, Sr., Sabine Parish       S-326
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 13, 1986
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Dr. Rolan Rivers Stoker, Sr.

  Funeral services were held February 11, 1986, at Ft. Jesup
Baptist Church, for Dr. Rolan R. Stoker, a well known resident of
Sabine Parish. He died last Friday night at the VA Hospital in
Shreveport, due to complications from surgery to repair a broken
hip, which he suffered in a fall some two weeks ago. He had been
in the Roseview Nursing Home in Shreveport, for a number of years
prior to his death.
  Since 19498, when he returned to his home place on Hwy 6,
two miles east of Ft. Jesup, Dr. Stoker led an exceptionally
active life as a business executive, civic leader, and church
worker in Sabine Parish, and elsewhere in the state of Louisiana.
For these activities, he was inducted into the Sabine Parish Hall
of Fame in November 1972.

  Dr. Stoker was born in Ft. Jesup, August 7, 1894. His parents
were Riley Stoker, and Nannie Winn Stoker. He attended Robeline
High School, and after a tour of duty in the U. S. Navy during
World War I, he attended Atlanta Southern Dental College in
Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1923. Dr. Stoker practiced
dentistry for some twenty years in Atlanta, where he met and
married the former Lovie Alberta Preston, who later became well
known in Sabine Parish for her civic and religious work. The
couple raised two sons in Atlanta. During the 1940's, Dr. Stoker
retired from dentistry, and became a full time worker, with the
R. F. LeTourneau Evangelistic foundation.

  Dr. Stoker is survived by his two sons, Rolan R. Stoker Jr. of
Atlanta, Georgia, and Thomas M. Stoker of Shreveport, as well as
six grandchildren; and one great grandchild.