Rollins, Bruce Gail (1949-1981)

ROLLINS, GORDON, POWELL, HELTON, GREUFE, SYLVESTER, NEMECHEK, BENSON

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Date: 3/20/2024 at 16:55:43

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Friday, April 17, 1981

Funeral services for Bruce G. Rollins, 32, will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Foster Funeral home with the Rev. Raymond M. Roden officiating and with burial in Graceland cemetery. The American Legion Post 191 will conduct flagfolding services at graveside.

Mr. Rollins died Thursday morning at the University Hospitals at Iowa City where he had been a patient the past five months.

Bruce Gail Rollins, son of Donald and Geneva Gordon Rollins, was born Jan. 16, 1949 in Webster City and was reared and educated in this community.

He was married at Webster City on Aug. 26, 1967 to Kathy Powell. He entered the U.S. Army in 1969 and served in the Vietnam conflict.

He attained the rating of sergeant, and while serving with the U.S. troops which went into Cambodia, he stepped on a land mine which shattered his left leg on June 23, 1970. He was hospitalized until March 12, 1971 and discharged from service after his bid to re-enter the service was turned down. He then returned to Webster City where he had resided since.

Survivors include his wife, Kathy; one son, Bruce, Jr., and one daughter, Mickie, both at home; his mother, Mrs. Geneva Rollins and two brothers, Donald Rollins, Jr., and Terry Rollins, both of Webster City; one sister, Mrs. Jerry (Vona) Helton, Webster City; three half-sisters, Mrs. Bill (Bonnie) Greufe of Blairsburg, Mrs. Guy (Beverly) Sylvester, Webster City and Mrs. Richard (Barbara) Nemechek of Dayton; and one half-brother, Ronald Benson of Hopkins, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his father.

He was a member of the American Legion, the VFW and the Moose Lodge, all of Webster City.