Roland H. Loomis |
| Posted 2009-07-18 by Sharla |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ February 19, 2003, p. B8 Dr. Roland H. Loomis, age 87, passed from death to everlasting life with Jesus on Feb. 15, 2003. He was born on March 1, 1916 in Ocean Park, Wash. He is survived by his loving wife of more than 60 years, Helen; daughter Leanne and son-in-law Howard of Prescott; son Roland (Ron) and daughter-in-law Sandy of Tucson; grandson Daniel Olson and his wife Ann of San Diego; granddaughter Angela of Tucson; grandson Mark Loomis, U.S. Navy Airman; sister Ellen and her husband Bryce of Palm Springs; brother Byron and his wife Ruth of Brookings, Ore., and nine nieces and nephews. Roland attended the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of California in Berkley prior to World War II. He received his Navy commission at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1940 and was on active duty in the South Pacific where he served as navigator on an attack transport, and as the commanding officer of a coastal transport. He resigned his commission at war's end with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and enrolled in the College of Optometry at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore. After graduation, he opened his optometry office in Portland, Ore., and practiced there for 9 years until he moved his family to Wickenburg. He and Helen worked together in his office downtown from 1957 until they retired in 1985. In his early Wickenburg years he was an active member of the Lions, Rotary and the Sportsmen's Club. He loved the outdoors, and was an avid hunter and tennis player, as well as an accomplished pianist. He was a much beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend; a devout Christian, and a charter member of Mt. Hope Assembly of God. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Mt. Hope Church at 2 p.m. with private family burial following. See Also: Find A Grave |
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