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U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Denver J Rollins
Birth Year: 1927
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: West Virginia
State of Residence: West Virginia
County or City: Putnam
Enlistment Date: 30 Nov 1945
Enlistment State: Indiana
Enlistment City: Camp Atterbury Columbus
Branch: No branch assignment
Branch Code: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the Panama Canal Department
Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source: Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC
Education: Grammar school
Civil Occupation: Not Elsewhere Classified
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 00
Weight: 000
Social Security Death Index
Name: Denver J. Rollins
Last Residence: 25801 Beckley, Raleigh, West Virginia
Born: 5 Jul 1927
Died: 17 Feb 2010
State (Year) SSN issued: North Carolina or West Virginia (Before 1951)
Denver James Rollins - Charleston Gazette - (Feb/19/2010)
Denver James Rollins, 82, of Beckley, formerly of Putnam County, went home to meet his Lord and Savior on Wednesday, February 17, 2010.
Born July 4, 1927, at home in Paradise, he was the son of the late James Monroe and Gracie-Mae Rollins.
He was a retired auto body man who never knew a stranger and always had a joke to tell. He attended the First Church of the Nazarene in Beckley.
After enlisting in the Army, he transferred to the Air Force and was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, from 1944 until 1947.
Those left to cherish his memory include his loving wife, Beulah Rollins; his children, Ramona Dent of Fairfield, Ohio, Mary Scott and husband, Don, of Leon, and Rick Rollins and wife, Joyce, and Mike Rollins and wife, Jody, all of Beckley; seven grandchildren, Ricky Rollins and wife, Alexis, Joe Rollins and wife, Brandi, of Beckley, Stacey Myers and husband, Mike, of Charlton Heights, Mark Adkins and wife, Denise, of Burlington, Ky., Carrie Bell and husband, Joe, of Taylor Mills, Ky., Josh Rollins of Columbus, Ohio, and Phil Bowling and companion, Devan; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, February 20, at the First Church of the Nazarene, Beckley, with Pastor Richard Wagoner officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Friends may gather with the family from 1 p.m. until time of the service Saturday at the church.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.blueridgefuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the American Cancer Society of Raleigh County, Relay for Life, c/o City National Bank, 1 Park Ave., Beckley, WV 25801, or the First Church of the Nazarene, 607 Johnstown Road, Beckley, WV 25801.
Blue Ridge Funeral Home, 5251 Robert C. Byrd Drive, Beckley, is in charge of the arrangements.
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West Virginia Pioneers
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