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Obituaries
03/10/04
The Rev. James Harold Rowland Sr., 72,
of 116 Lake Bluff Drive,
Waynesboro died Friday, March 5, 2004, at Burke Medical Center. Funeral
services will be 3 p.m. Sunday, March 7, at First Baptist Church in Waynesboro
with Dr. J. Truett Gannon and the Rev. Father Gary Abbott
presiding. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Visitation will be from
7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at DeLoach-Kennedy Funeral Home in Waynesboro.
Rev. Rowland was a native of Cordele and a resident of Waynesboro for
36 years. He was educated at Mercer University in Macon and graduated
from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
He was pastor of First Baptist Church in Waynesboro, First Baptist
Church in Washington, Lake Toxaway in North Carolina and First Baptist
Mission Church in Marietta. He was also instrumental in establishing
Rosemont Heights Baptist Church in Waynesboro and served in various
positions of the Georgia Baptist Convention.
Rev. Rowland was mayor of the City of Waynesboro from 1992 to 1995
and served as president of the Burke County Chamber of Commerce. He
was president of the Waynes-boro Rotary Club in 1963 and Washington
Rotary Club and received the distinguished honor of Paul Harris Fellow.
He was a charter member of the International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians
and a former weekly columnist of the Washington News-Reporter and a
weekly columnist for The True Citizen in Waynesboro until his death.
He was an avid golfer and hunter.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Joan Thompson Rowland; three
children, James Harold Rowland Jr. of Grovetown, Cheryl R. Hen-derson
of Beech Island, S.C., and Ernest E. Rowland of Augusta; five grandchildren
and a great grandson; and a sister, Mrs. Faye Gregory of Stem, N.C.
Pallbearers will be William Harold Rowland, Ernest Hampton Rowland,
John Creighton Henderson Jr., John Henderson Sr., Brian Rowland Henderson
and James Jeffrey Goff.
The family requested memorial contributions be made to Portsbridge
Hospice, 1227 Augusta West Pkwy., Augusta, Ga. 30909. DeLoach-Kennedy
Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs.
Irene Ellison-Jordan departed this life on Saturday, March 6, 2004,
at the home of her sister, Mary Ann Hilton. Funeral services will be held
2 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at Beech Branch Baptist Church in Sardis,
with the Rev. Roosevelt Anthony officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Survivors include her son, Albert M. (Wanda J.) Jordan of Willingboro,
N.J.; one sister, Mary Ann Hilton of Waynes-boro; four grandchildren,
six great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives
and friends.
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