By Jason Evans

Staff Reporter

jevans@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — Area residents are asked to come out Friday to pay tribute to a man who served his country.

The Pickens County Coroner’s Office contacted Pickens County Veterans Affairs officer Sherry Harris on Nov. 18 after William D. Rowland was found dead.

“That was how I first learned about him,” Harris said Friday.

The coroner’s office said Rowland was a veteran.

Rowland was homeless at the time of his death, Harris said.

He was born in Pickens 64 years ago, she said. He enjoyed camping and hunting.

“In 1972, Rowland enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country

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