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COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 575,000 Americans and counting.
Those we ve lost come from all backgrounds and include the very people first responders and medical staff who have been working on the front lines. But the virus has also highlighted the disparities in the U.S. taking a disproportionate toll on communities of color, the elderly and the poor.
Each week ABC News is spotlighting several Americans who have lost their lives to COVID-19. This week, we re highlighting a police officer, a retired math teacher and a 35-year-old woman whose husband is battling his own illness.
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.
Lyndon Rowland was a keen sports enthusiast, as a player and spectator
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My uncle, Lyndon Rowland, who has died aged 88, was a Korean war veteran and keen sportsman.
Lyn was born in Newport, Gwent, to Violet (nee Smith) and George Rowland. He was the youngest of 12 children, only seven of whom survived to adulthood, among them my father, Roy. They grew up above the family fish and chip shop on Corporation Road. Lyn’s duties included peeling potatoes before school each morning and collecting fresh fish from Newport railway station. He would cycle home with pallets of hake and plaice balanced on his handlebars.
UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) A beloved former teacher in North Carolina has died from COVID-19.
George Rowland passed away Sunday night from the virus after contracting it over the holiday break. Rowland was a retired teacher in Union County and tutored at East Union Middle School. He was a friend, Coworker Dorris Burtrell told WSOC. He was a big brother. He was an uncle and, sometimes, in our school, he was a dad.
Another colleague noted Rowland was an amazing example to the kids in school. Others said Rowland had a passion for teaching and was known for being a sharp dresser. Rowland s LinkedIn profile lists him as having worked for Union County Public Schools since 2001.