Source: http://www.texnews.com/1998/obits/0125.html

A.E. `Bus' Rollans

SWEETWATER -- A.E. ``Bus'' Rollans, 82, Fisher County sheriff from 1955 until retiring in 1977, died Friday in a local nursing home.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in McCoy Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with the Rev. Orvel Brantley officiating. Burial with Masonic rites will be in Roby Cemetery.

Mr. Rollans was born in Dardanelle, Ark., and lived in Roby for more than 50 years. Upon his retirement, he had been sheriff of Fisher County six years longer than anyone else who had held that position. He was the widower of Opal O'Neal Rollans, whom he married in 1935 in Roby. He married Lucille Wade Ault in 1968 in Rotan and moved to Sweetwater 20 years ago. He was a charter member of the Fisher County Sheriff's Posse and was a former member of the Roby and Rotan Lions clubs. He was a 50-year member of Fisher County Masonic Lodge 703 in Roby and also was a member of Roby Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, of Sweetwater; one son, Alton E. Rollans of San Angelo; four sisters, Mildred Self of Houston, Dorothy Terry of Roby, Erma Ruth Butler of Sweetwater and Velda Wright of Rotan; one half-brother, John Dooley of Lubbock; one half-sister, Emma Dunivan of Deming, N.M.; one stepbrother, Clell Dooley of Sweetwater; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.