{"id":1494,"date":"2026-10-31T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1494"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:28:06","slug":"ben-roling-remembered","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1494","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin \u201cBen\u201d Roling remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=7\">Roling family<\/a> \u203a Benjamin Franklin \u201cBen\u201d Roling remembered<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">His 1969 obituary and the distinction between different men named Frank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ben-roling-obituary-1969\">1969 \u00b7 Benjamin Franklin \u201cBen\u201d Roling remembered<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben\u2019s obituary reports his death on February 18 at age 77 in Moberly. It gives a January 10, 1892 birth in Monroe City, names his parents as John F. and Louisa Bickel Roling, and describes him as a retired pipe fitter. Among the relatives named are his surviving brother Joe and his son John, who had been killed in World War II. The notice reports completed funeral services and burial at St. Joseph\u2019s Cemetery, but does not print an exact funeral date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> \u201cFuneral Service Thursday Morning For Ben Roling\u201d, <em>Salisbury Press-Spectator<\/em>, February 28, 1969, page 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/1365792990\/\">Read the original newspaper page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brief notice the week before had told Salisbury readers that Ben had died in a Moberly nursing home, where he had lived for several months. Funeral arrangements were still to be announced by Berry Funeral Home and through the newspaper\u2019s Tel-A-News service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Additional source:<\/strong> \u201cBen Roling Died Tues. in Moberly,\u201d <cite>Salisbury Press-Spectator<\/cite>, February 21, 1969, page 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=7\">\u2190 Roling family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1510\">Roling stories<\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Roling family \u203a Benjamin Franklin \u201cBen\u201d Roling remembered His 1969 obituary and the distinction between different men named Frank. 1969 \u00b7 Benjamin Franklin \u201cBen\u201d Roling remembered Ben\u2019s obituary reports his death on February 18 at age 77 in Moberly. It gives a January 10, 1892 birth in Monroe City, names his parents as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1494\/revisions\/1627"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}