Submitted by: Dan Rich

Dr. Rollin A. Lasseter III

Nov. 6, 1939 - May 12, 2008

South Bend Tribune 5/13/2008
GRANGER - Dr. Rollin A. Lasseter III, 68, passed away at his home in Granger. Born in Nashville, TN, he attended Montgomery Bell Academy and graduated from Vanderbilt University. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to graduate school. At Vanderbilt he led his team for three contests on national television's popular "College Bowl." In 1969 he received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University. He was named "Teacher of the Year" twice at the University of Kentucky, was invited to direct the Honors Program there, and eventually joined the English faculty at North Carolina State University where he was given tenure. He taught at St. Mary's College in South Bend, IN, as well as Trinity School at Greenlawn and the University of Dallas, TX. After retiring he shaped the Catholic Schools Textbook Project as director, editor and primary writer. He died on the morning of May 12, 2008, surrounded by family and loved ones.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth Davis Lasseter of Indianapolis; his sisters, Nancy L. Wolgast of Leesburg, FL, and Gertrude Patch of Lexington, KY; children, John, William, Ruth Katherine, Austin, Benjamin and Helen. He is also remembered as a grandfather to eight grandchildren, Margaret, Rollin and William Jr., Helen, Edward, Teresa and Samuel, and Sarah.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15th, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the Notre Dame campus. Cremation and burial at Cedar Grove Cemetery will take place later. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in McGann Hay Funerals/Cremations/ Gatherings, Granger Chapel, 13260 SR 23 (enter off Cherry Road), where the Holy Rosary will be prayed at 7:30 p.m. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Catholic Schools Textbook Project, PO Box 4638, Ventura, CA 93007.