Chester Garfield Rollins

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Chester Garfield Rollins, 91, 240 Taborn Road, Carrier Mills, died 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, at his home.

Services will be held 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at Felty Funeral Home in Carrier Mills with the Rev. Thomas Jeffro officiating. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery with military rites by the Carrier Mills and Harrisburg American Legions and the National Guard Ritual Squad. Visitation is 11 a.m. to service time Friday.

He was born on July 15, 1918, in Carrier Mills to the late Henry and Nora (Cofield) Rollins. He married Afton Taborn on April 8, 1947, and she preceded him in death on May 13, 1999.

He was a Baptist deacon for over 60 years at the Galilee Baptist Church in Carrier Mills. He was a member with Ministries and Deacons Union of Mt. Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois.

He was an entered Mason apprentice, passed to the degree of Master Mason and entitled to be received by Free and Accepted Masons around the globe.

He served in the Army during both World War II and the Korean War. His battles and campaigns were in China, India and Burma. He earned one service stripe, three overseas service bars, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze Battle Stars, Good Conduct Medal and a World War II Victory Medal.

He retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agency Forest Service in Golconda. There he affected the lives of young corpsmen in hopes to give them a trade and turn them into self-respecting citizens.

He is survived by four sons, Chester Lamonte Rollins, Henry Larue Rollins and William Harry Rollins, all of Carrier Mills and David Lamar Rollins of Harrisburg; a daughter, Janet (Michael) Buckley of Richmond, Va.; an adopted daughter, Elizabeth (Wilford) McWilliams of South Haven, Miss.; two sisters, Edith Chavis of Harrisburg and Iona Davis of Marion; a sister-in-law, Monica Stewart of Carrier Mills; 15 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Afton Rollins; son, Joseph Anthony Rollins; and daughter, Carolyn Ladon Rollins.