Roland Curtis Herring was born on 28 May 1925 in Cedar Co., IA. He married Dorothy Mae Ferguson, daughter of
, on 22 November 1950 in Princess Anne Co., VA, Ceremony by rev. Emil J. Redman, minister of the Little Creek Lutheran Church. Roland Curtis Herring died on 14 November 1998
Obituary (Findagrave.com):
Obit from Gazette November, 1998.
Roland C. Herring, 73, died Saturday, November 14, 1998, in his rural Mechanicsville home of cancer.
Services: 1:30 AM Tuesday, First Presbyterian Church.
Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, with military rites.
Friends may call from 4 to 7 PM today at Morgan
funeral Home, Mechanicsville.
Survivors include his wife Dorothy; three children, Janet and husband Duane Dierks, Clarence, Robert of Atalissa and Susan and husband Jeff Schnipkoweit of Iowa Falls; grandchildren, Brad and Scott Dierks, Rob and Amy Herring and Nick and Aldin
Schnipkoweit and a great-granddaughter, Briley Herring.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Alton; and a granddaughter, Sarah Dierks.
Roland was born May 28, 1925, on the family farm, the son of Curtis and Cora Buchanan Herring. He graduated from Tipton High School in 1943. He served with the Navy in the Construction Battalion. He married Dorothy Ferguson November 22, 1950 in Little Creek, Arizona (sic).
He was a member of the First Presbyterian church and Busch-Dennis Legion Post No. 309. He was a board member of the Mechanicsville Telephone Company. He was a member of Two Cylinder Club and Tipton Country Club. He worked winters, driving trucks for the Gard Brothers of Cedar Rapids, for 20 years; he drove semis for Walter Johnson and Vernon Boots.
He was buried in November 1998 in Rose Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsville, Cedar Co., IA, Findagrave #71883827.