Juanell Dwight Lollar (1921-1997)

From the Mississippi House of Representatives composite, 1956-60.

  Discovered recently via a copy of the 1958 Mississippi handbook of legislators, Juanell Dwight Lollar was an automobile mechanic who represented the counties of Montgomery and Grenada for one term in the Mississippi house of representatives. Bestowed the unusual first name Juanell, Lollar was born on September 27, 1921, in Kilmichael, Mississippi, the son of E. Benson (1900-1977) and Blanche Kemp Lollar (1901-1991). 

  An Air Force veteran of World War II, Lollar underwent training in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1942 and was an instructor in airplane mechanics at Gulfport Field and Keesler Field, Mississippi. Lollar married in August 1942 to Dorothy Jean Palmertree (1926-2010), to who he was wed until his death. The couple would have three children, Juanita, Gary, and Marty (1963-2017).

  An auto mechanic by trade, Lollar was a partner in the Lollar Bros. Garage located in Kilmichael and also was a member of the Kilmichael Volunteer Fire Department. In 1955 Lollar was elected as a floaterial representative to the Mississippi state legislature, and during his term (1956-60) was a member of the committees on Eleemosynary Institutions; Insurance; Public Health and Quarantine; Public Lands; Roads, Ferries, and Bridges; and Temperance.

  After leaving office Lollar continued residence in Kilmichael, where he was a deacon and Sunday School teacher in the local Baptist church. His later years saw him as a dispatcher for the Kilmichael Police Department, and he died in that town on August 15, 1997, aged 75. He was survived by his wife and children and was interred at the Kilmichael Friendship Cemetery.