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Little is available on Lawrence's background. Prior to [[World War I]], he was a highway patrolman. He was drafted in 1917 at the age of twenty-three into the [[United States Army]]'s 9th Air Force. He flew three hundred combat hours in the [[Middle East]] and North Africa. A captain, he piloted the ''Snow White,'' a B-24 bomber, across the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://picryl.com/media/captain-rollo-c-pop-lawrence-of-the-us-army-9th-air-force-who-has-just-finished|title=Rollo C. Lawrence|publisher=picryl.com|accessdate=September 24, 2020}}</ref>
 
Little is available on Lawrence's background. Prior to [[World War I]], he was a highway patrolman. He was drafted in 1917 at the age of twenty-three into the [[United States Army]]'s 9th Air Force. He flew three hundred combat hours in the [[Middle East]] and North Africa. A captain, he piloted the ''Snow White,'' a B-24 bomber, across the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://picryl.com/media/captain-rollo-c-pop-lawrence-of-the-us-army-9th-air-force-who-has-just-finished|title=Rollo C. Lawrence|publisher=picryl.com|accessdate=September 24, 2020}}</ref>
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He also listed his occupation as the grocery business. He and his wife, the former Nellie Alvania Wells (1895-1992), had four children, Rollo, Jr., Sidone, Sybil, and Shirley Annette Lawrence (the girls' married names unavailable).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Rollo%20Charles&gsln=Lawrence%2C%20Sr.&mswpn__ftp=Pineville%2C%20Rapides%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=34422&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C2485%7C34422%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1894&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Rollo Charles Lawrence, Sr.|publisher=searchancestry.com|accessdate=July 22, 2015}}</ref> Information is unavailable on Lawrence's life during the decade of the 1920s and the time that he left state employment in 1951 until his death seventeen years later.
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He also listed his occupation as the grocery business. He and his wife, the former Nellie Alvania Wells (1895-1992), had four children, Rollo, Jr., Sidone, Sybil, and Shirley Annette Lawrence (the girls' married names unavailable).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Rollo%20Charles&gsln=Lawrence%2C%20Sr.&mswpn__ftp=Pineville%2C%20Rapides%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=34422&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C2485%7C34422%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1894&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Rollo Charles Lawrence, Sr.|publisher=searchancestry.com|accessdate=September 25, 2020}}</ref> Information is unavailable on Lawrence's life during the decade of the 1920s and the time that he left state employment in 1951 until his death seventeen years later.
    
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