Bertha Howell Roberts, 96, of Ocilla died Tuesday, September 30, 2008, at Palemon Gaskins Nursing Home in Ocilla.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Friday, October 3, 2008, at Bethel Baptist Church in Ocilla with her great-grandson, Jeremy Drawdy officiating. Eulogy will be given by her granddaughter, Vickie Drawdy. Interment will follow in Frank Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Thursday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Roberts was born April 27, 1912, in Bleckley County, Georgia to the late Oscar and Minnie Collins Howell. She was a homemaker and lived in the Irwin County community most of her life. Mrs. Roberts was a member of Bethel Baptist Church and the Ladies Sunday School Class.
She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-love, Marion & Linda Roberts and Oscar & Janis Roberts all of Ocilla; daughters and sons-in-love, Viviette & Harold Walker and Gwen & Harmon Davis all of Ocilla; 13 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great- grandchildren; sisters and brothers-in-law; Ruby Roberts of Clinton, TN, Ella Wetherington of Valdosta, Sally & Tom Rowell of Fitzgerald and Florence & Roy Touchstone of Jacksonville, FL as well as several nieces and nephews. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, M. Hughe Roberts, four brothers and 3 sisters.
The family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Bethel Baptist Church c/o Dale Drawdy, 196 Hickory Rd., Ocilla, GA 31774, the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association or to an organization dearest to the donor’s heart.