Bobby Rollo

After graduating in May 1976, I enrolled at the University of Texas for the fall semester to study pre-med. However, my family bought the Klein Farm on Highway 73 in early 1977 and I dropped out of school for what I thought would be a year. Things didn't work out as planned and I stayed until 1982. I had had a religious epiphany in 1980 and had set my mind on pursuing missionary work. I studied one year at Rhema Bible College in 1982-83. For the next six years I worked various odd jobs and did part time missionary trips - mostly with YWAM and Mercy Ships. In 1989 I went back to College at Lamar University to again pursue pre-med degree with the intention to do medical missionary work. (This is still a big desire for me). I went to Baylor Medical School from 1991 through 1995. While at Baylor I married Susan Noble. We moved to Greenville, NC and I did my internship at the University of East Carolina. We moved back to Winnie in the fall of 1996 when Susan had some difficulties during pregnancy with our first child, Isaac. I finished my residency at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. In 1998 I started clinic practice in Winnie and stayed there until 2004. During the time we were in Winnie our three children were born. In November 2004 we moved to College Station and shortly thereafter I started working at the Grimes County St Joseph Hospital in Navasota as an emergency room doctor. Earlier this year we moved to Katy.

I remember a lot of small details from school (during elementary and Jr. High) - all of us getting in trouble for "the cussing club" (third grade I think), integrating the schools in elementary, bringing a pair of boxing gloves to school that I had received for Christmas and Hugh Simpson letting me and John Simien box everyday for a week (bloody noses and all), my dad owning the "Burger King" and going their to hang out and watch all the high schoolers (I still know every word of "the letter" ), James Finn dancing and singing "love potion #9", getting licks from the Jr. High principal Roy A. Tully whom we affectionately called RAT, pandemonium in Mrs. McAdams eighth grade class.
(During High School) I remember someone started a fad on the Winnie streets late at night - driving on the wrong side of the street with lights off, the "mooning" fad, going out to football practice in my jock strap, the continuous argument with Coach Taylor about our long hair (last time I saw him he had a ponytail), riding wheelies down Hwy 124, the crazy parties at the house and the "good times" van.