Rollins, Leander Ellsworth (1888-1965)

ROLLINS, GINGERY, CHAMPION, RITTER, WOOD

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/19/2024 at 17:03:10

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Saturday, July 17, 1965

Lee R. Rollins, 77, longtime resident of Webster City, died this morning at the Jewell Rest home in Jewell where he had been a patient the past year and one-half. He had been in ill health the past seven years.

Funeral services will be announced Monday. The body will lie in state at the Foster Funeral home.

Mr. Rollins is survived by two daughters and four sons: Mrs. Leo (Vona) Gingery, Webster City, Mrs. Edgar (Reva) Champion, Eagle Grove, Cleo Rollins, Portland, Ore., Donald Rollins, Webster City and Wayne Rollins, Eagle Grove and Laurence Rollins, Tacoma, Wash.; 19 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are two brothers, Charles Rollins of Pine River, Minn., and Lewis Rollins, Lincoln, Neb.; one sister, Mrs. Frances Ritter, Grand Rapids, Mich.

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1943, one daughter, his parents, one sister and three brothers.

Mr. Rollins was a member of the Church of Christ.

[according to information on Find A Grave Leander 'Lee' was married in 1908 to Lillian May Wood and both of them are buried in Graceland Cemetery, Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa]