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John Isaac Rollings
1 Jul 1905 – 17 Dec 1970
| Birth | 1 Jul 1905 |
| Death | 17 Dec 1970 |
| Cemetery | Hillcrest Abbey Crematory and Mausoleum Saint Louis , City of St. Louis , Missouri , USA |
| Added by | Delores Barnett on 15 Apr 2018 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50045449 |
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Masonic Rose Croix services will be tonight with funeral services Saturday for John Isaac Rollings, 65, former president of the Missouri State Labor Council who died Thursday. Mr. Rollings retired last January from his labor post because of heart trouble. He died at his home here Thursday night after a long illness. He was elected president of the state labor council in May 1953, succeeding the late Reuben T. Wood, a Springfieldian. As president of the council, which had headquarters in Jefferson City, he was primarily a lobbyist. He once said he believed that labor should have lobbyists in all capitols, not just to protect selfish interests but "to help all members of our society who have no one to represent them." Mr Rollings visited Israel in 1956 as a member of a delegation of labor representatives and there conferred with former Premier David Ben Gurion. Mr. Rollings moved from Spokane to St Louis in 1924 and worked for 16 years as a barber before being elected a full-time officer of the St Louis Barbers' local. He was executive secretary of the St Louis Central Trades Council from 1942 to 1953. He was named to the Missouri Academy of Squires by Gov John M. Dalton in 1964. In 1968 Mr Rollings was named Missouri Conservationist of the Year by Sears Roebuck and Company. He was on the board of trustees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield for 20 years, ending last July. Mr. Rollings was on the St Louis Board of Freeholders which initiated bond issues for the St Louis airport and for downtown revitalization. In 1951 he was named by Gov Forrest Smith to a commission to do research on resources for the public schools. Gov Warren E. Hearnes appointed Rollings to a commission to make legislation recommendations on workmen's compensation. He also served on the war Labor Board in World War II. He was a native of St. Charles County. During his boyhood the family moved to a farm near Day in Taney County and he went to school at Spokane across the line in Christian County. A nephew, Dale Rollings, is an assistant attorney general in Jefferson City, specializing in criminal cases. Dale Rollings is a former Greene County assistant prosecutor. Surviving are his wife, Fannie; three sisters, Mrs. Cora Saltsman, Mrs Rose Botolfson, and Mrs. Bertha Watkins, and eight brothers, Jake Rollings, Al Rollings, William Rollings, Leamond Rollings, Edward Rollings, Neil Rollings, Lewis Rollings and Burl Rollings. Scottish Rite services will be at 8 pm today and funeral services will be at 130 pm Saturday in Witt Mortuary St Louis. Mr. Rollings was a member of Trinity Lodge No 641, AF and AM. The body will be cremated.
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- Cora Catherine Rollings Saltsman 1903–1990
- Rose Gertrude Rollings Botolfson 1907–1999
- Floyd Jacob "Jake" Rollings 1909–1996
- Robert Albert "Al" Rollings 1911–1994
- William Palmer Rollings 1913–1988
- Edward Charles "Champ" Rollings 1916–1985
- Leamond Elbert Rollings 1917–1994
- Neil Norman Rollings 1919–2002
- Bertha Elizabeth "Betty" Rollings Watkins 1921–2004
- Lewis Rollings 1923–2004
- Burl Dale Rollings 1924–1981
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