Sonia Kay ROLLAND

ROLLAND, KRAABEL, DOUGHERTY, OLSON, BURGIN, HENRYSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/21/2007 at 10:40:18

November 20, 2007
©Belmond Independent 2007

Sonia Kay Rolland died November 17, 2007 at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames following a 14-month battle with cancer. Services were held Wednesday morning, November 21 at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Ames with Pastor Randy Gehring officiating. Burial followed at the Roland Cemetery.

Sonia Kay was born in Albert Lea on August 16, 1962 to Conrad and Mary (Kraabel) Rolland. She was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran in Scarville and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran in Belmond. She attended schools in Inwood, Belmond, Hampton and Ames, graduating from Ames High School in May 1981. She attended Des Moines Area Community College for one year. She worked at North Grand Care Center in Ames and at Anderson Grocery in Roland. She moved to Ames in 1992 and worked at Sears for eight years and at the Fareway store for one year until her illness prevented her from working. She deeply loved her family, the Iowa Hawkeyes, her friends, animals, Fareway Grocery Store and Bethesda Lutheran Church.

Preceding her in death were an infant brother Bruce; infant nephew Ryan Dougherty; and grandparents Leo and Gladys (Olson) Rolland and Pastor Maynard and Helen (Henryson) Kraabel. She is survived by her parents of Roland; siblings Kim Rolland of Roland, Kari (Chuck) Burgin of Indianola, Steven (Joleen) Rolland of Belmond and Kristen (Randy) Dougherty of Belmond; nieces Jaclyn Dougherty, Chelsey Dougherty, Shelby Dougherty, Markaya Rolland and Taylor Burgin; and nephews Jason (Holly) Burgin, Gavin Burgin, Bruce Rolland and Michael Rolland.