Lloyd Rowin

Lloyd Rowin

Lloyd Rowin was born March 26, 1923 in Ellis County, Texas. He passed from this life on October 23, 2011 at Roswell Regional Hospital. A memorial gathering will be at 2:00pm on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the family home at 1606 E. College. Cremation has taken place and his ashes will be scattered in Ruidoso, NM where his wifes ashes were scattered.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Vivian Rowin, parents James and Alma Rowin, and five siblings. Lloydss survivors include his daughter, Frances and husband Tom Santos of the family home two granddaughters, Nicole and Shelby Peterson and grandson Michael Todd Kenneth and family all of Texas. His surviving siblings are Imogene Lee of Roswell Jimmie Rowin of Arkansas, Jack Rowin of Manton, CA., Shirley Meade of Tennessee and Bob Rowin of Casa Grande, AZ. and also thirteen grandchildren.

Lloyd went into the Navy on April 1942 and did boot camp in San Diego and served during WWII on Transport ships delivering foods to South American countries and once through the Panama Canal delivering beans and bombs to Russia. In the Pacific travels he went to Australia, Guadalcanal and one trip to the Aleutians. His ship was under attack more than once during their time of service. After his discharge he went to work for Ma Bell in their construction department. He spend all of his time in New Mexico upgrading the telephone lines from 4 or 5 conversations to 30 to 35 on a line and stringing new lines mostly in northern New Mexico for the telephone company. With 20 years all their work was obsolete as the new buried cable for microwave technology came into being and then FibreOpitc lines. When he retired from the telephone company they had just got their first computer. He continued to do contract construction work for the telephone company for 10 more years. He and his wife Vivian traveled and enjoyed their grandchildren.

His health failed this summer and his daughter and husband moved in with him to care for him his was a life will lived and he was loved by his family.

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