Roland Jaderberg passed away from lung cancer on March 13 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 81. Born in 1924, Roland was the second-youngest of eight children and grew up on the south side of Chicago during the Great Depression. A veteran of World War II, he spent two and a half years in the U.S. Army, 10 and a half months of which were spent as a prisoner of war in Germany. Upon returning to the United States, Roland worked for 27 years as an electrician at Ford Motor Company in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He took an early retirement and together with his wife Lillian, traveled the country buying older homes in beautiful locations, renovating them, living in them for a while, then moving on to another location. Roland enjoyed golf, bowling and playing guitar. A kind, unassuming and well-liked man, he was a member of the American Legion. He is survived by his loving family: Lillian, his wife of 50 years; daughters Linda St-Cyr, a rocket scientist at Boeing, and Barbara Schaffer, a molecular biologist at UCLA; grandchildren Anne-Elisa Yeager, David Schaffer and Gaetah St-Cyr, Jr.; sons-in-law Gaetan St-Cyr and Mark Schaffer; and his sister Doris Papesh of Chicago. A memorial service with military honors was held at Los Angeles Veteran’s Cemetery in April. Any donations in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society.
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