Rollins Funeral Home Inc

Born on July 8, 1943, in Tallahassee, Fl., he was the son of the late Mack Arthur and Perdita Padgett Rollins. He was also preceded in death by his infant brother, Dennis Brendan Rollins. Carl grew up in the Dawnville community “on a dirt road” as he sometimes liked to say. He graduated from North Whitfield High School in 1960, where he was the president of his class and voted “Most Likely to Succeed”. As a member of Boy Scout Troop 60, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. He attended Mercer University in Macon, Ga,, and holds undergraduate (Class of 1964) and law (Class of 1966) degrees from that institution. At Mercer he served as president of the senior class, chief justice of the Honor Council, vice president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and was a ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate. He was admitted to the Bar in Georgia in 1966. From 1966-1968 he served in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer at Fort Gordon (Augusta, Georgia) where he was a law instructor in the Military Police School. He returned to Dalton in 1968 and joined the McCamy Law Firm, where he practiced civil, corporate and estate planning law for twenty-three years. He joined Shaw Industries, Inc., in 1991 as vice president of administration and an officer of the company. He retired from Shaw in March, 2003. Carl was intricately involved in the formation of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Whitfield County. With a strong committee of volunteers, the Dalton club launched in August, 2002. The Dalton unit was renamed the Carl Rollins Unit in May, 2003. He was inducted into the Boys and Girls Clubs Georgia Hall of Fame in 2013. Carl was very involved in the community as a leader and at one time or another served in the following ways: director of Dalton Rotary Club, director of Dalton/Whitfield Chamber of Commerce, president of the Mercer Alumni Association, trustee of Georgia Tech Parents Association, president of the Dalton Exchange Club, president of Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Dalton-Whitfield County, vice president and...