Source: Higgason Family History, compiled by Virginia Witherington, pg. 126

Extracted from a local Arkansas newspaper
July 1959

GALE ROWLAND JR., MCGEHEE CHILD

Gazette State News Service

McGehee, July 27, -- Gale Rowland Jr., 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gale Rowland of McGehee, died Sunday at a Greenville, Miss., hospital. He was a Methodist. He is survived also by a brother, Lloyd Rowland of McGehee, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bishop and Mrs. E. C. Rowland of Dumas. Funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at First Methodist Church by Rev. Hirston R. Holland and Rev. Mouzon Mann. Burial will be at McGehee Cemetery by Dyer Funeral Service.