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CAUS electrocuted by a lightning strike
Roy moved to Weatherford Oklahoma where he and his father William H. Rolfing were in business together.Roy was struck and killed by lightning on July 24, 1924. Roy was standing in the doorway of a barn, between two other men whose lives were spared. His daughter was born on October 7, 1924, a little over two months after his death.
Sina was very determined to learn in school. In her second year of high school, at Canute, Oklahoma, they closed the school because the superintendent eloped with one of the students. Sina went to stay with relatives in Altus, Oklahoma to finish school. She was on the school basketball team so she practiced after school then walked more than a mile home and prepared dinner and clean up the dishes. Two weeks before the graduation ceremony she went home to help her ailing mother who was about to give birth to Selma Lee, her only sister. She stayed on at the farm until Hattie was better, then she moved to Oklahoma City to attend Hills Business University.
She did waitress work for an income while attending classes. Her first job was working as a bookkeeper for Herring & Young General Merchandise Store in Elk City, Oklahoma with a salary of $60.00 a month.
She soon bettered herself with the help of her father's political pull and got a job working as a court reporter in Cordell Oklahoma. Her boss was Judge Owen F. Renegar, she worked for 4 years there, where she met and married Roy S. Rolfing.
She had a good friend named Omah Burns whom Roy insisted could not be trusted.
When Roy found out she was going to have a baby he said to her, "Honey , you tell everyone that you want a boy and I'll tell everyone I want a girl, then when it's born no matter what it is some ole busy body won't be able to say, ' poor little thing' they didn't want it.
As wonderful as Roy was he didn't believe in insurance. When he died Sina sold the business, liquidated all other assets, laid him to rest and wondered how she was going have a baby with $3.42 to her name. She moved back to the family fold in Canute, Oklahoma until her baby was 2 weeks old. She got a job at a bank in Bessie, Oklahoma and a short time later she got another job at the Bank in Weatherford Oklahoma.
During a visit to her, her father in law, William H. Rolfing saw the trouble she was having, so he went back to Clinton Oklahoma and told the President of the bank there that he wanted his daughter in law to have a job there so he and the wife could give her the help that she needed. Sina moved into their home at 220 South 5th street, Clinton, Oklahoma and went to work for the First National Bank and remained there for 13 years.
Elizabeth lived in Quay, Oklahoma in 1905.
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OCCU a boiler maker
William's tombstone gives his birth year as 1864.
Elizabeth lived in Quay, Oklahoma in 1905.