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Joe Roller is an American Landscape Architect. He was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma State College. After college, he joined the U.S. Army. He finished his service in 1972, after which he used the GI Bill to earn his Master of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University College of Architecture and Design. He was honored there by the American Society of Landscape Architects who awarded him the National Honor Award for excellence in Landscape Architecture studies.

He then went to work with the City of Kettering, Ohio in their Planning & Zoning Department where he advanced to the Development Coordinator.

While in this position he was part of the design team for the 100-acre Lincoln Park & Fraze Pavillion project in Kettering. Joe has traveled around the world to share his skills. He has traveled to the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan on behalf of the International City Managers Association to help newly independent towns and cities with land planning. He retired from the City of Kettering after 38 years and is now a commercial realtor for HRI Commercial Realty in Beavercreek, Ohio where he has the position of Vice President of Development.

Joe and his wife Phyllis have 3 grown children. Joe is an active member of his local church and is a season ticket holder to both the Dayton Dragons and the Dayton Philharmonic. He has experimented with bee keeping but his real love is fishing. Whenever he gets a chance, he enjoys heading north to Canada for, as he calls it, "real fishing".