GM1 Charles Spencer Trollinger, Sr.

1922 - 2003  (80 years)

• Name	Charles Spencer Trollinger
  Title	GM1
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	27 Apr 1922	Norfolk City, VA
  	Virginia, U.S., Birth Records Name: Charles Spencer Trollinger Birth Date: 27 Apr 1922 Birth Place: Norfolk, Virginia, USA Certificate Number: 1922018660
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jan 2003	Conyers, Rockdale, GA
  	U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index Name: Charles Trollinger [Charles S Trollinger] SSN: 256161996 Gender: Male Race: White Birth Date: 27 Apr 1922 Birth Place: Norfolk, Virginia Death Date: 24 Jan 2003 Father: Robt V Trollinger Mother: Miriam Patterson Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Sep 1938: Name listed as CHARLES TROLLINGER; Apr 1959: Name listed as CHARLES S TROLLINGER
  Burial	Conyers, Rockdale, GA
  	Burial: Green Meadows Memorial Gardens Conyers, Rockdale County, Georgia, USA Inscription: TROLLINGER Charles S, 1922-2003 Betty S. 1923-2016 Charles' military plaque inscription: Charles Trollinger Sr. US Navy World War II Apr 27 1922 Jan 24 2003
  Person ID	I21822	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	Robert Vernon Trollinger, Sr.,   b. 22 Nov 1888, Newton, Catawba, NC d. 11 Apr 1959, Norfolk County, VA (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Miriam Rose Anne "Rosa" "Missouri" Patterson,   b. 18 Apr 1896, NC d. 2 Feb 1967, Fayetteville, Fayette, GA (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F7501	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Betty R. Sewell,   b. 15 Jan 1923   d. 10 Mar 2016, GA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	13 Aug 1944
  	The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) 13 Aug 1944, Sun Page 24 SEWELL-TROLLINGER Mr. and Mrs. Jake Sewell announce the engagement of their daughter, Betty, to Petty Officer Charles Spencer Trollinger, the marriage to take place August 31.
  Children	1. Gayle Trollinger   2. Jean Trollinger   3. Charles Spencer Trollinger, Jr.
  Family ID	F7503	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Feb 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 27 Apr 1922 - Norfolk City, VA Death - 24 Jan 2003 - Conyers, Rockdale, GA Burial - - Conyers, Rockdale, GA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia)27 Jan 2003, MonPage B6 Charles Trollinger, Pearl Harbor survivor

  
  

  Documents		Charles Trollinger Pearl Harbor survivor Trollinger, Pearl Harbor survivor By KAY POWELL kpowell@ajc.com For 15 years, nightmares of the bombing of Pearl Harbor haunted Charles Trollinger. He was a 19-year-old third-class gunner’s mate on the USS Maryland firing at Japanese aircraft during the devastating two-hour attack in 1941. “The ships were in good shape, but the armament wasn’t,” he said in a 1986 interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It was so obsolete it stunk. We weren’t prepared to fight any kind of way.” He saw friends killed and their bodies float through the fire and oil spills in the harbor. “It eats your guts out,” Mr. Trollinger said. “Dead bodies were stacked up everywhere. You could see them on the shore and on the ships.” Etched forever in his mind were the smiling faces of the Japanese fighter pilots and gunners. “They were peering over the sides . . . just grinning. They had a field day.” He was silent on the subject for 15 years and suffered nightmares. But “time heals all wounds,” he said after a 45-year anniversary visit to Pearl Harbor. He went on to work for the U.S. Postal Service, to serve on the Rockdale County Commission and to become president of the state Pearl Harbor Survivors organization. The funeral for Charles Spencer Trollinger Sr., 80, of Conyers, who died Friday of a heart attack at Rockdale Hospital, is at 2 p.m. today at Horis A. Ward, Rockdale Chapel. After retiring from the post office in 1972, Mr. Trollinger, a longtime golfer, was asked to manage Honey Creek Golf & Country Club in Conyers, said his wife, Betty Sewell Trollinger. That job combined his experience supervising 100 employees for the postal service and his prowess as a golfer. He continued to play the game he loved and taught a lot of people to play golf, too, said his son-in-law John Anchors of Sparta. A second job Mr. Trollinger held while working for the post office gave him access to the Masters golf tournament every year from 1961-72. Working for Pinkerton’s Security, he was in charge of uniformed security at the Masters, said Mr. Anchors. Friends talked Mr. Trollinger into running for the Rockdale County Commission in 1980, and he served eight years. His proudest accomplishment as commissioner, said his son-in-law, was balancing the budget and reducing property taxes. Mr. Trollinger also started a community service program for offenders convicted in Rockdale courts and supervised it on his own time, said Mr. Anchors. “Charlie was a lot of fun,” said his son-in-law. “He liked a lot of humor in his life. He laughed all the time.” In addition to being a good enough golfer to have made a hole-in-one, Mr. Trollinger was a winning card player. His son-in-law would play golf with him, but not poker. “You couldn’t ever tell what he was holding,” said Mr. Anchor. Survivors include two daughters, Gayle Stanton of Loganville and Jean Anchors of Sparta; a son, Spence Trollinger of Conyers; two sisters, Nell Thompson of Fayetteville and Sarah Wheeler of Greenville, N.C.; six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
  		Obituary The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, Georgia · Sunday, January 26, 2003 Page C9

  
  

  Headstones		Green Meadows Memorial Gardens Conyers, Rockdale, GA
  		Green Meadows Memorial Gardens Conyers, Rockdale, GA

  
  

• Notes

  TROLLINGER, CHARLES S Sr US NAVY WORLD WAR II DATE OF BIRTH: 04/27/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 01/24/2003 BURIED AT: GREEN MEADOW MEMORIAL GARDENS INC 677 LEGION ROAD NE CONYERS, GA 30012 (770) 483-4457 U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls Name: Charles Spencer Trollinger Ship, Station or Activity: Maryland Ship Number or Designation: BB-46 Muster Date: 31 Dec 1941 U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls Name: Charles Spencer Trollinger Ship, Station or Activity: Maryland Ship Number or Designation: BB-46 Muster Date: 30 Sep 1942 U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls Name: Charles Spencer Trollinger Ship, Station or Activity: Maryland Ship Number or Designation: BB-46 Muster Date: 30 Sep 1943 U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls Name: Charles Spencer Trollinger Ship, Station or Activity: Maryland Ship Number or Designation: BB-46 Muster Date: 31 Dec 1943