Funeral service for Gertrude Trotter Roland, 88, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at North Trenholm Baptist Church. The family will receive friends one hour prior at the church. Burial will follow in Crescent Hill Memorial Gardens. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family.
Mrs. Roland passed away Thursday, June 11, 2015. Born in Columbia, she was a daughter of the late W.P. Trotter and Mary McLeod Trotter. She was the wife of the late Willie Emanuel Roland. Mrs. Roland was an active member of North Trenholm Baptist Church, the Anderson-Quattlebaum Sunday School Class and the Senior Choir. She loved working with the children in Sunday School and Children’s Choir. Mrs. Roland dedicated her time to the church in many capacities. For the past year, she was also a member of the Senior Adult Choir of First Baptist Church. Mrs. Roland was a graduate of Columbia High School and a 1947 graduate of Columbia Hospital School of Nursing. She was a Registered Nurse with Columbia Hospital and the Student Health Center at USC retiring in 1992. She loved to travel, read, work crossword puzzles, watch the USC Gamecocks play and most of all, babysit her grandchildren.
Surviving are her daughter, Barbara Roland Anderson; sons, Paul E. Roland (Lynn), Charles E. Roland; brother, George Trotter; sisters, Nell Funderburk, Grace Roland; grandchildren, Patrick Roland, Marianne Roland Phillips, Timothy Anderson (Patricia); step-grandchildren, Kevin (Lori) Anderson, Mark Anderson; great-grandchildren, Jordan Phillips, Ethan Phillips, C.J. Roland, Aurora Anderson; step-great-grandchildren, Ashlee Anderson and Kristy Anderson. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by son-in-law, Dennis Anderson; brothers, Pickney Trotter, Eugene Trotter; and aunt, Gertrude McLeod.
Memorials may be made to North Trenholm Baptist Church, 6515 North Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC 29206 or a charity of one’s choice.
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