ROLOFF, Merle 1913-1999

ROLOFF, YOKUM, BYRD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/11/2010 at 16:14:44

MERLE ROLOFF

CHARLES CITY - Merle Roloff, 85, of 602 Fourth Ave., died Tuesday (July 6, 1999) at the Salsbury Baptist Home, Charles City.

Funeral services for Merle Roloff will be held 10 a.m. Saturday at the Hauser Funeral Home, 1205 S. Main St., with the Rev. Greg White officiating. Burial will be in the Orchard Cemetery, Orchard.

Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. today at the Hauser Funeral Home, where the family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m.There will be further visitation one hour before services on Saturday.

Merle Edwin Roloff was born August 19, 1913, at Stout, the son of Ernest and Mary (Yokum) Roloff. He graduated from New Hartford High School, where he was the Iowa State basketball champion player. He attended Iowa State Teachers College and Northwestern Bible College.

On Sept. 7, 1935, he was united in marriage to Pauline Byrd at the Walnut Street Baptist Church, Waterloo. Merle served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was a salesman for 41 years with the Jewel Tea Company, later the Jewel Company, for many years.

Merle was a member of the American Legion and Temple Baptist Church. He served extensively in supplying pulpits in many churches in the surrounding counties.

Living family members include his wife, Pauline, of Charles City; a son, Marston "Val" and his wife, Gail, of Grand Marais, Minn.; a daughter, Sue and her husband, Ron Coffey, of Council Bluffs; two grandchldren, Jason Marc and Joshua Aaron Roloff; a great-grandson, Jacob Marc Roloff; and a brother, Leo Roloff, of Illinois.

His parents, five brothers, and a sister preceded him in death.

Hauser Funeral Home, (515) 228-2323.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, July 9, 1999, from ncigs.org archives.]