Ollie Mae Roberts, 93, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Saturday, August 14, 2004, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald, Georgia, with Rev. David Fisher officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00, Friday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Roberts was born July 9, 1911 in Bartow County, Georgia, to the late John Thomas and Minnie Atkinson Morris. She lived in the community most of her life and was a former employee of H.R. Kaminsky & Sons, Fitzgerald Mills and Modern Fibers. Mrs. Roberts was a member of Callie Garbutt Baptist Church.
Mrs. Roberts is survived by two daughters: Betty (Charles) Jones, Fitzgerald and Peggy (Mitchell) Melton, Fitzgerald (Formerly of Colquitt County, GA); one sister: Patsy Giles, Winter Haven, FL; grandchildren: Danny (Debbie) Ricketson, Waynesville and Dean Ricketson, Warner Robins; great grandchildren: Josh Ricketson, Warner Robins, Melissa Ricketson, Tifton, Elizabeth Ricketson, Cumming; Christy Gordan, Fitzgerald, Tim Hembree and Kalye Hembree, both of Waynesville; six great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy Roberts