Dr. Lane Cedric Rolling
March 17, 1964 – October 3, 2023
Dr. Lane Cedric Rolling passed away unexpectedly on October 3, 2023 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was only 59 years old. His family is beyond devastated and heartbroken.
In a world filled with artificiality and pretense, Dr. Rolling was one of the realest. A beacon of Black excellence, his credentials were extensive and unparalleled: a Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, and a former Captain in the U.S. Army. With specialties spanning microbiology, virology, infectious diseases, and biochemical warfare, he was a force in the medical and infectious disease world.
Born in Fort Polk, Louisiana to Edith Marie Black Rolling on March 17, 1964, he was known by those closest to him as “Ced” or “Sid.” Growing up as an Army “brat” he lived in many places including Virginia, Okinawa, Japan and Kaiserslautern, Germany and eventually moved to Nevada where he was a star athlete in football, baseball, and track at Valley High School in Las Vegas, graduating in 1982.
He attended Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, first on a football scholarship and then an Army ROTC scholarship. He was the first African-American to graduate with a double major in Microbiology and Chemistry with a minor in Military Science in 1986. It was at Weber State where he met his future wife Catherine Loader with whom he had four of his children, Nicole, Ashley, Jordyn, and Nathan. They were married on September 22, 1989 and later divorced after 23 years together. His eldest son, Branden was born in Las Vegas in 1984.
After graduating from Weber State, he was awarded a fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Nevada-Reno where he received a Masters in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 1988. He proudly graduated from the California School of Podiatric Medicine where he received his D.P.M. in 1992. He completed his residency in Podiatric surgery at Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1993. Dr. Rolling later completed his M.D. at the University of Health Sciences Antigua.
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This one, I’m allowing myself to feel.
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