| JEAN R. ROLAND |
| Mrs. Jean R. Roland, 81, of Bison, Kansas, died Tuesday (February 19, 2002) at the Rush County Memorial Hospital
in La Crosse, Kansas. Born November 23, 1920 in Maudaha, U. P., INDIA, Jean was the daughter of Sterling G. and Zoena Sutton Rothermel, who were Christian Church missionaries in India at the time. At an early age Jean accepted Christ as her personal Savior and was baptized into Him. Jean graduated from Woodstock High School in Mussoorie, U. P. INDIA in 1938. She earned her Bachelors Degree from the Cincinnati Bible Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1943. She earned her Masters Degree in Speech and Drama from Fort Hays State College, Hays, Kansas in 1968. She also earned her LPN and RN degrees from Dodge City Community College, Dodge City, Kansas, and Barton County Community College, Great Bend, Kansas. Mrs. Roland served, with her husband, as a missionary in India from 1947 to 1997 in various capacities: Bible College staff and teacher, orphanage director, staff and teacher at Woodstock School, nurse in a leprosy treatment and control program. She is survived by her husband, William H. Roland, to whom she was married on July 12, 1943 at Rockport, Illinois. She is also survived by sons , Charles W. Roland, Pasadena, Maryland; David L. Roland, Beason, Illinois; and Paul S. Roland, Miami, Florida; and by a daughter Mary Esther Boonaerts, Opglabbeek, Belgium; by seven Grandsons and one Granddaughter; and by three Great Granddaughters. Mrs. Roland was preceded in death by her parents, Sterling G. and Zoena S. Rothermel; and two brothers, Paul Rothermel and Charles Rothermel. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 in the Payson Christian Church by Brother Kenneth Worcester. Burial will be in Payson New Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday afternoon from 1:00 until the time of services at the church. Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home in Payson is in charge of the arrangements. The family is requesting memorials be sent to First Christian Church, LaCrosse, KS, for the Lakeview Bible College, in Madras, India. That is where Jean and William spent their last years of service in India |