Ruby Doris Stanford Roberts, 81, of Saint Charles, Missouri, formerly of Tifton passed away Monday, July 7, 2003, at National Health Care Nursing Home in Saint Charles, Missouri. Her funeral service was held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 13, 2003, at Salem Baptist Church in Tifton with the Rev. Hayward Tomblin and the Rev. Richard Goff officiating. Mrs. Roberts was laid to rest at Salem Memorial Gardens in Tifton.
Gene Green. Butch Green, Junior Bryan, Sanford Perryman, Gary Roberts, Ford Spinks and Raymond Frazier served as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers were Mrs. Roberts' grandchildren.
Born May 4, 1922, in Rome (Floyd County), Mrs. Roberts was the daughter of the late Charles Stanford and Annie Fay Godfrey Stanford. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Curtis D. Roberts, who passed away in 1979. She was a homemaker; and she had been a member of Salem Baptist Church in Tifton for over 50 years. She had lived in Saint Charles, Missouri about two years, moving there from Tifton.
Mrs. Roberts is survived by two sons, Arthur Wayne Roberts of Athens and Charles Devaughn Roberts of Port Saint Joe, Florida; one daughter, Judith Faye Hume of Saint Charles, Missouri; one brother, Warren Stanford of Alabama; one sister, Ann Reed of Orlando, Florida; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.