Willie Miller Roberts
Published 5:00 am Friday, October 15, 2004
Services for Willie Miller Roberts of Wesson are 2 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 16, at Sylvarena Baptist Church with burial inSylvarena Cemetery. Harrigill Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.
Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at the church.
Mr. Roberts, 91, died Oct. 14, 2004, at the G.V. “Sonny”Montgomery Veteran Affairs Medical Center. He was born in LincolnCounty on Sept. 13, 1913, to Perry R. Roberts and Winnie MillerRoberts.
He was a self-employed cattleman, farmer. He was a member of theAmerican Legion and an Army veteran of World War II. He was amember of Sylvarena Baptist Church, where he served as adeacon.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his son, Carl WillieRoberts Sr.; his brother, Woodrow W. Roberts; two sisters, Ruby B.Smith and Ruth E. Roberts; and a grandson, Kevin Roberts.
Survivors are his wife, Lillian Shacklee Roberts of Wesson; hisdaughters, Sheryl R. Montgomery and Karen R. Roberts, both ofWesson; his sisters, Amy L. Hester of Wesson, and Dorothy J.Jackson, of Jackson; his brothers, Floyd Roberts of Bossier City,La., and Clarence Roberts of Alexandria, La.; his grandchildren,Carl Willie Roberts Jr., and his wife, Freda, Courtney Hall, DeemieMontgomery Letchworth and her husband, Brian, and Ronda MontgomeryClark and her husband, Pat; and nine great grandchildren.