Obit – Mr. Steve Rollins
Flat Rock Community resident, Mr. Steve Rollins was pronounced deceased at 2:13 a.m. Thursday morning May 16, 2024 at the TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center in Antioch where he was admitted Monday afternoon May 13th to the Cardiac Care Intensive Unit suffering from heart failure. Mr. Rollins was 59 years of age.
A graveside service was conducted Sunday afternoon May 19th at 1 p.m. with Daniel Mitchell delivering the eulogy. He was buried beside his Father and Mother in the Rollins family lot in section five at the Ridgewood Cemetery.
He was born Stephen Talley Rollins at the former McFarland Hospital in Lebanon on October 25, 1964 and was one of five children, a son and four daughters of the late Jeff Talley Rollins who died September 19, 1979 at the age of 66 and his mother, Frances Elizabeth Wright Rollins who just died March 10th of this year at the age of 100.
Mr. Rollins was a recipient of his General Education Degree.
He was saved at the age of 15 on June 10, 1980 and joined the Rome Baptist Church and was baptized by then pastor, Bro. John H. Norman on June 15, 1980.
He was a longtime truck driver for Southern Woodenware and later the Wilson County Farmers Cooperative in Lebanon. After retiring from truck driving, he had worked at the Defeated Creek waste station and later as a bread stocker for Sunbeam Bread at Walmart and Kroger.
Mr. Rollins loved the farm life and all animals and had a fur kitty named Callie Girl, which was very dear to his heart.
Surviving are his three children, Logan McKinney and wife Jennifer of Wesley Chapel, Florida, Katie Kimes and husband Kyle of Estill Springs, Tennessee, Lana Vera and husband Christian of Cowan, Tennessee; four sisters, Bettye Rollins of Lebanon, Lana Rollins Chitwood and husband Stephen of Celina, Diana Rollins of the Flat Rock Community, Alice Rollins Givens and fiancée Kenneth Bennett of the Tuckers Cross Road Community; seven grandchildren, Greyson Kimes, Paxton Kimes, Eliza Vera, Nova Vera, Bryson McKinney, Ryder McKinney and Marilyn Jo McKinney.
The Rollins family requests memorials to the Smith County Humane Society.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
