Anna Vivian Diffrient Roberts

Published 5:00 am Thursday, June 21, 2001

Graveside services for Anna Vivian Diffrient Roberts ofBrookhaven are 2 p.m., Friday, June 22, at Richland Cemetery inRankin County.

Visitation is Friday from 10 a.m. until noon at BrookhavenFuneral Home.

Mrs. Roberts, 86, died June 20, 2001, at King’s DaughtersMedical Center. She was born in Florence on Nov. 8, 1914, toWilliam James Williams Jr. and Ida Ersie Scarbrough Williams.

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She was a sales lady for the Shirley Slipper Shop.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and her husbands,Robert F. Diffrient Sr. and Buddy Roberts.

Survivors are her son, Robert F. “Bobby” Diffrient Jr. ofBrookhaven; her stepson, Raymond Roberts of Brookhaven; her sister,Eleanor Johnson of Richland; and three grandchildren and eightgreat-grandchildren.