Perry R Rolfe

Somerville

Funeral service for Perry R Rolfe, age 81 of Somerville will be Monday, January 13, 2014, at 3 p.m. at Antioch United Methodist Church with Kathryne Perkins officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.  Visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Mr Rolfe, who was born on September y, 1932, in Morgan Counto to Joe Wilbur Rolfe and Mary McCutcheon Rolfe, died on Saturday, January 11, 2014, at his home in Somerville.  He was a lifelong member of the Antioch United Methodist Church, retired from Redstone Arsenal after 33 years and also retired as a Lieutenant Colonel after serving for 33 years as a member of the 1343rd Battalion of the U. S. Arny National Guard.  He was preceded in death by his parents and by two brothers, Joe Rolfe Jr. and Harry Rolfe, a sister Faye Rolfe Willis, and a stepbrother, Dr. Dale Brown.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Julia Rolfe; a son, Phillip Rolfe (Brenda); a daughter, Belinda Thompson (Steve); and two grandchildren, Elizabeth Thompson and Joseph Thompson, all of Somerville.  He is also survived by a stepsister, Judy Brown Aldridge of Danville.

Pallbearers will be donald Ray Rolfe, Roger Garner, Christopher Binkley, Herb Willis, Patrick Willis and Don Murphy.

Published in the Decatur Daily on Monday, January 14, 2014.

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