Services for Luther “Son” Roberts of Brookhaven are 2 p.m.,Saturday, April 10, at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Churchwith burial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 5 p.m., with family hourfrom 7:30-8:30 p.m., at Williams Mortuary.

Mr. Roberts, 85, died April 4, 2004, in Lincoln County. He wasborn in Lincoln County on June 14, 1918, to Virgil Roberts andLizzie Roberts.

He was a member of Ebenezer African Methodist EpiscopalChurch.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Beulah R.Roberts; two daughters, Helen Jean Drake and Laura E. Roberts; hissisters, Malissa Gooden, Clara Mae Dickey, Mamie Newton, VoirceGooden and Katie Mae Roberts; and his brothers, Henry Roberts andFrank Roberts.

Survivors are his daughters and sons-in-law, Augustine and JohnStewart of Waco, Texas, Janice and David Smith of Brookhaven, andCatherine “Cookie” Tillman of Brookhaven; his sons anddaughter-in-law, the Rev. Luther Bernard Roberts of Brookhaven, andVirgil R. and Cora Roberts of Brookhaven; six grandchildren; eightgreat-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relativesand friends.