Obituaries: Arvell Roberts, 1979, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 1979 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Arvell Roberts

Arvell Roberts of Baton Rouge, La., died at 9 a.m. Monday, September 10, 1979
at Baton Rouge General Hospital following a lengthy illness.  He was born at
Joyce, La., on January 11, 1917, coming to Grant Parish as a boy with his
parents, Mrs. Leona Roberts and the late Tom Roberts and lived in Hargis and
Verda Communities and was 62 years of age at the time of his death.

He was a 1936 graduate of Verda High School, a member of the Baptist Church,
Masonic Lodge, World War II veteran, served in the Marine Corps and married to
the former Anna Ruth Smith who survives him.

Funeral services were conducted in the chapel of Welch Funeral Home, Baton
Rouge, at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 11, 1979, with burial in Rest Haven
Cemetery.

Other than his wife, Mrs. Anna Ruth Roberts of Baton Rouge, he is survived
by one son, Wayne Roberts, and granddaughter, Niki Roberts, both of Winnfield,
three sisters, Mrs. Gloria Lasyone, Route 1, Atlanta, Mrs. Willie Dee
Battershell, Kankakee, Ill., and Miss Thelma Roberts, Verda, La.; two
brothers, Lyndal and Lamar Roberts, both of Denham Springs, his mother, Mrs.
Leona Roberts of Verda, La., a host of other relatives and friends.