Thank You For Your Service!

Enid Morning News
Dec 1984

Hennessey – services for Reba M. Rowland, 67, will be at 10 AM Friday in the First Baptist Church at Hennessey with the Rev. Mike Downey officiating. Burial will be in the Lyon Valley Cemetery at Hennessey.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Cordry and Son Funeral Home of Hennessey.

Mrs. Rowland was born April 9, 1917, at Loyal and died Monday in a Norman hospital after several months illness. She moved to Hennessey as a small child and graduated from Hennessey high school.

She graduated from the Enid General Hospital School of Nursing with the class of 1940, serving as President of her class and valedictorian.

Mrs. Rowland worked as a private duty nurse in Enid and for the last 20 years of her professional life as a clinical nurse, working primarily in Kingfisher before retiring in 1979.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church at Hennessey.

She and A. G. Rowland were married April 18, 1941. He preceded her in death on November 15, 1963.

Mrs. Rowland is survived by a daughter, Nina Rowland of Norman; a son, Reid Rowland of Alvin, Texas; a brother, Pete Melton of Tribune, Kansas; three sisters, Irene Walburn of Albany, Oregon, Wilma Maloney of Waukomis, and Nettie Vrska of Marshall.

Contributions in memory of Mrs. Rowland may be made to the First Baptist Church or the Kingfisher Community Hospital, with the funeral home serving as custodian of the fund.

The casket will be open at the church for an hour before service time and will remain closed following the service.