Robert
Maurice Roller, age 82, of Adams, Wisconsin went to his
Savior on June 19, 2007 on a warm summer night as the corn
was growing and crops being harvested.Memorial services
will be 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 23, 2007 at the
Roseberry's Funeral Home in Friendship, Wisconsin. Pastor
Dwight Condon will officiate. Interment will be at the
Easton Cemetery, Town of Easton, Adams County, Wisconsin at
a later date.
Visitation will be 9 a.m. until the time of service on
Saturday, June 23rd, at Roseberry's Funeral Home.
Bob was born at home on October 2nd, 1924 in
the Adams County Township of Easton, Wisconsin to Maurice
and Beulah Ann (Mills) Roller. Bob lived his early years in
Easton, he attended the local schools. He married Alice
Marie Hollman on October 9, 1942 in Wisconsin Dells,
Wisconsin. Bob and Alice worked on the home farm, after a
short stint of working on a farm near Morrisonville and on
the Olp farm.
In 1971, Bob and Alice sold the farm, moved to Gardiner,
MT a beautiful spot along the Yellowstone River and Cedar
Creek. Bob worked for a few months at a John Deere
dealership in Livingston, MT � a distance of 50 miles one
way. Bob soon earned a maintenance position job in
Yellowstone National Park, WY.
While working in Yellowstone, Bob and Alice lived at
Bridge Bay. Bob worked for the National Parks Service and
upon retirement he worked for the Parks Concessionaire for a
total of 24 years.
Bob and Alice had many visitors to show around "their
park". They loved Yellowstone and in the late fall they
packed groceries for the winter season.
They snowmobiled in and out the park on their weekends to
their home on Cedar Creek. They snowmobiled throughout
Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. They enjoyed fishing in the
evenings at various places around Yellowstone Lake.
Their most memorable experience was late in fall, just
after they had taken most of the groceries in for the
winter. A bear broke into their mobile home � the bear
didn�t win. Alice was in the home when the bear was first
trying to enter at the back door. Alice left by the front
door, walking approximately 2 blocks to the maintenance shop
to get Bob. They returned to find the bear in the kitchen
area. Bob went by the bear toward the back bedroom to get
his gun. When Bob started back down the hall, a Ranger was
entering the front door � advising Bob, very strenuously,
not to shoot the bear. Bob said it was their food, not the
bears food. The bear was eventually lured out the back door.
After retiring from the concessionaire, Bob and Alice
continued to live at Cedar Creek. When health issues became
more evident, Bob and Alice decided to move back to
Wisconsin, living in Adams. They renewed many friendships
from the early days when they lived in Easton.
Robert was preceded in death by his parents, Maurice and
Beulah Roller; sister, Jessie Spaude; son-in-law, Gerald
Cook � Sept. 14, 1991; and daughter-in-law, Patty Roller �
June 1994.
Survivors include
his wife of 64 years, Alice Roller of Adams, Wisconsin
