Apr 6, 2021
George Wesley Roland, 81, died peacefully in his sleep in the early morning of Monday, March 29, 2021 in Glendale, AZ. He is now the best golfer in the world.
A celebration of life for George Roland will take place in Ruthven this summer.
George was born in Spencer, on Feb. 14, 1940. He grew up in Ruthven. There, he was involved in everything: band, choir, football, baseball, hunting and just about anything a boy in rural Iowa in the ’50s could be.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drake University in 1964 and quickly joined the world of insurance underwriting. He stayed in that field his whole career, earning a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) license in 1981. He and his family moved to Arizona in 1986. He stayed in insurance, ultimately becoming an agency manager until he retired in 1995.