Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rollings, M. Cecil, 1952 

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MILLS CECIL ROLLINGS 

HEART ATTACK IS FATAL TO CECIL ROLLINGS 

  Funeral services for Mills Cecil Rollings, 36, who died Sunday of a heart 
attack while swimming near Luray, Va., were held Tuesday afternoon at the 
Wakefield Methodist Church with burial in the Wakefield Cemetery.  Rev. 
Carroll Freeman and Rev. J.L. Blankenship conducted the service while members 
of the Masonic Lodge and the Wakefield Ruritan Club attended in a body.

  Mr. Rollings was widely known as a song leader and was recognized as a 
top-notch salesman of farm machinery.  He numbered many farmers throughout 
this trade area as friends.  Until his fatal attack he appeared in excellent 
health.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice Gardner Rollings; one son, Gardner 
Rollings, and one daughter, Nancy Rollings, all of Wakefield; his mother, 
Mrs. Ida C. Rollings; three brothers, Melvin, Marion and Norman Rollings, 
and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Hargrave, all of Dendron.

  Pallbearers were Robert Freeman, Clarence Griffin, Vernon Clark, R.F. 
Warren, Jr., Thad Evans, Rooney Stringfield, William Kitchen, Henry Gardner 
and Robert Hotchkiss.

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MILLS CECIL ROLLINGS 

  WAKEFIELD, VA - July 29 - A funeral service for Mills C. Rollings, 36, 
Wakefield man who died of a heart attack while swimming at Luray, Va. on 
Sunday, was held Tuesday at Wakefield Methodist Church.  Burial was in 
Wakefield Cemetery.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice Gardner Rollings; 
one son, Gardner Rollings, and one daughter, Nancy Rollings, all of Wakefield; 
his mother, Mrs. Ida C. Rollings; three brothers, Melvin, Marion and Norman 
Rollings, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Hargrave, all of Dendron, in Surry County.


Mills Cecil ROLLINGS, farm machinery salesman, 
b. 15 Jan 1916, Surry Co., d. 27 Jul 1952, Luray, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 29 Jul 1952, 
donated obit; 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," July 30, 1952, p. 8 

*His parents are also buried there.  Wakefield list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

His mother's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 1978) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/r452i2ob.txt 


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