Rollin Lavon Connell ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

  Birth Notes:

Name: Rollin Lavon Connell
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 14 Jul 1915
Event Place: Warren, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Glenn Alton Connell
Mother's Name: Verna Pearl Brannan

Citing this Record
"Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V462-WFK : 11 March 2018), Verna Pearl Brannan in entry for Rollin Lavon Connell, 14 Jul 1915; citing Warren, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States; county district courts, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,769,518.
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  Death Notes:

Age: 74
Given Name: Rollin
Middle Name: L
Surname: Connell
Birth Date: 14 Jul 1915
State: Iowa
Event Date: 23 Dec 1989

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V3FZ-7Z2 : 20 May 2014), Rollin L Connell, 23 Dec 1989; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Warren Township, Poweshiek County, IA on January 1920. ⁴

1920 US Census
Sheet 4A, District 139, Household 75
Warren Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Rollin Connell..Son..4..IA

(Living with parents.)
.

• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Warren Township, Poweshiek County, IA on April 1930. ⁵

1930 US Census
Sheet 4B, District 0028, Household 83, Roll 680
Warren Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Rollin L. Connell..Son..14..IA

(Living with widowed father.)
.

• He appeared on the 1940 US Census in Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, IA on 22 April 1940. ²

1940 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 79-17, Family 125, Roll 1200
Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States
Home rented, $8
Rollin Connell..Head..24..IA..12th grade..Farmer

(Living with wife.)
.

• He was buried after 23 December 1989 in the Orange Township Cemetery in Waterloo, IA.

Find A Grave Memorial #95355312
. ⁷

Rollin married Mildred Eloise Walters, daughter of Frank L. Walters and Elsie Rose, on 23 October 1938 in Nashua, IA.^{1 2} (Mildred Eloise Walters was born on 11 August 1917 in Guernsey, IA,^{1 2 8 9} died in July 1980 in Waterloo, IA ^{8 9} and was buried in July 1980 in Waterloo, IA ⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, IA on 22 April 1940. ²

1940 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 79-17, Family 125, Roll 1200
Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States
Home rented, $8
Rollin Connell..Head..24..IA..12th grade..Farmer
Mildred Connell..Wife..22..IA..3 years college
.

  Marriage Notes:

They lived on a farm near Hudson, Iowa. (per Dannell Hopkins, http://www.geocities.com/danni_74932/)
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Rollin Lavon Connell was born on July 14, 1915 in Brooklyn, IA. He died on December 23, 1989 in Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, IA. He died after a long illness. He was buried in Orange Township Cemetery, Waterloo, IA. Services were held at Hudson, IA. Rollin was a longtime farmer. They maintained homes at Marion and Hudson.

He was married to Mildred Eloise Walter on October 23, 1938 in Nashua, IA. Mildred was born on August 11, 1917 in Guernsey, Poweshiek Co. IA. She died in 1980 in Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, IA. She was buried in Orange Township Cemetery, Waterloo, IA. The funeral was held at Hudson Community Church.

Rollin Lavon Connell and Mildred Eloise Walter had the following children:

i. daughter Connell
ii. Lowell Franklin Connell was born on January 18, 1944. He died in Dec. 18, 1945

Rollin remarried after Mildred's death to Doris Slater on September 12, 1981 in Marion, IA.

(Source: Ancestry.com, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~connell/index38.htm, Accessed 9 Feb 2014)
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