Harry Evan Rollings

Harry Evan Rollings, 82, died Sunday morning, the 8th of June 2003 at his home. During his last weeks he was lovingly cared for by his wife, Sandra, his physician son, Robert, and his five daughters with the assistance of many friends and Hospice Savannah. He was a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi and the son of Emma Siebe Rollings and Robert Evan Rollings, a master watchmaker. Born on the 23rd of July 1920, he completed Hattiesburg High School in 1936 and then attended the State Teachers College(now the University of Southern Mississippi) and subsequently the University of Mississippi. After graduating from Tulane Medical School in 1943, he served his internship at Philadelphia General Hospital. He then returned to New Orleans as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Charity Hospital. He served on the staff of the Ochsner Clinic until 1948 when he moved to Savannah with his wife, the former Irma Lee Pittman of Amite, Louisiana. They had six children, including two sets of twins. He began an extraordinarily successful private medical practice, the first fifty years of which was celebrated at a ceremony under the Candler Oak in 1993. His style of practice epitomized the complete patients physicianÉa real doctor. To patients he was truly perfect in every way. He continued to practice another five years with Savannah Cardiology and as medical director for Crawford and Company. He served as a flight surgeon in the Strategic Air Command at Hunter Air Field from 1951 through 1953 and subsequently in the Georgia Air National Guard as a Colonel. He and Irma Lee were married until her death in 1997. In 1998 he married Sandra Rieck, of Brunswick. He belonged to the Thunderbolt Masonic Lodge and the Alee Shrine Temple where he was a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason as well as a member of the Directors Staff Unit. He was active in the Coastal Amateur Radio Society and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Originally a member of the Court Street United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he and his family later joined Wesley Monumental Methodist Church in Savannah. He had a lifelong passion for automobiles and was a successful sports car driver. He was an aviation enthusiast with ratings in both fixed-wing and helicopters flying to many of the surrounding communities. An accomplished sportsman, he enjoyed tennis, boating, hunting, and fishing with friends and colleagues. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Rollings of Savannah ; five daughters: Cynthia Rollings of Chappaqua, NY, Alane Rollings of Chicago, IL, Pamela Rollings of Pittsburgh, PA, Janet Rollings of Princeton, NJ, Ellen Glasser of Jacksonville, FL; one son: Robert Rollings of Savannah; twelve grand children, Dan, Sam, Emma, and Joe Karlin; Ross and Kurt Brendel, Carley, Daisy, Nellie, and Harry Glasser, Henry and Jackson Rollings; two nieces, Roblyn Rollings Schwartz of Petal, MS and Susan Forshag Griffith of Pearl River, LA; and one nephew, Cooper Forshag of Amite, LA. He was pre-deceased by his only sibling, Robert Henry Rollings of Hattiesburg, MS Family, friends, patients, and colleagues will be received at his home (514 Arlington Road) from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 11th to celebrate his life. He will be remembered as a devoted friend, husband, father, and as a visionary physician. Remembrances: Candler Foundation, 5353 Reynolds Street, Savannah, Georgia 31405, 912-692-2699. Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors Hodgson Chapel Savannah Morning News, June 10, 2003 Please sign our Obituary Guestbook at www.savannahnow.com