NAME: HAROLD Dean ROLAND AGE 69, A LIFE TIME ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: APRIL 20, 1937 AT POST OAK, ATOKA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TO EUGENE HAROLD AND EULA MARY (MORAN) ROLAND.

PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

AGE: 69 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 20 DAYS.

EDUCATION: HAROLD ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT POST OAK AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1956, HAROLD GOT HIS ASSOC. DEGREE AT CONNER'S STATE COLLEGE AND ATTENDED THE OKLAHOMA HIGHWAY PATROL ACADEMY.

MARRIED: CAROLYN SEABOURN AT ATOKA, OK. ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1962.

OCCUPATION: MR. ROLAND WORKED FOR ARVEL HALL'S HOME OIL COMPANY SERVICE STATION AS A YOUNG MAN. HE LATER WORKED FOR MONROE ALLEN TRUCKING CO., WAS A DELIVERY MAN FOR THE IDEAL BREAD CO., AND LATER RETIRED FROM THE OK. DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY AS A 2ND LT. IN THE HIGHWAY PATROL, SUPERVISOR IN TROOP E.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: HE WAS OF THE BAPTIST FAITH.

he was A MEMBER OF THE RETIRED TROOPERS ASSOC. AND A MEMBER OF ATOKA CHAPTER #60 D.A.V.. HAROLD LOVED BEING WITH HIS GRANDKIDS, GOING FISHING & HUNTING, MOWING HIS YARD, GOING TO THE COFFEE SHOP, AND WATCHING FOOTBALL. HE WAS AN AVID O.U. FAN.

HAROLD SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U.S. ARMY.

survived by

WIFE: CAROLYN roland OF THE HOME IN ATOKA, OK

CHILDREN: CHERYL ROBERTS AND HUSBAND WAYNE OF DIBBLE, OK.

VERNON ROLAND AND WIFE ALESHIA OF ATOKA, ok.

GRANDCHILDREN: ASHLEY SANDERS, MOLLY SANDERS, HAILEY ROLAND, SOPHIE ROLAND, ABBY

ROLAND, DAYSHA NELSON, KAELEY ROBERTS.

GREAT GRANDCHILD: CARTER SANDERS.

BROTHERS: CLOVIS ROLAND AND WIFE RITA OF ATOKA, ok.

WAYNE ROLAND AND WIFE SANDRA OF TUSHKA, ok.

SISTER: FERN SNIDER AND HUSBAND JOHN OF WICHITA, KS.

BILLIE CROW OF ATOKA, ok.

VERY SPECIAL FRIENDS: DARRELL COATS, DEWAYNE DARNELL, HUGH SEWELL, DONNIE ALLEN, DON

HENLEY, JOHN GILBREATH, hARRY, AND JESSIE TUNNELL.

preceded in death by

PARENTS: EUGENE HAROLD AND EULA MARY ROLAND.

FUNERAL SERVICE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006 AT 11:00 A.M.

PLACE OF SERVICES: SOUTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH ~ atoka, ok.

INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, ok.

OFFICIATING: REV. SAM GARNER.

ASSISTING: REV. STEVE HAVENER.

CASKETBEARERs: JIM LYONS, JEFF SEWELL, CURTIS GRADY, SHAWN PIERCE, DARRELL NORTHCOTT, MARK RIFFE, BILLY POE, TERRY MORRIS.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DARRELL COATS, DONNIE ALLEN, JOHN GILBREATH, DOUG NICHOLS, JACK CHOATE, DELROE SMITH, DON HENLEY, HARRY TUNNEL, D.W. DARNELL, ED GEORGE, DOUG KOGER, RON THOMAS, DALE SILVERS, MIKE WILLIAMS.

FAMILY NIGHT: MONDAY AT 6:00 P.M.