Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Cainey Roberts, Sr.
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   ROBERTS
   OKEMAH - Cainey ROBERTS, Sr., was born February 10, 1905, in Indian
   Territory. He died April 9, 1991, in the Creek Nation Community
   Hospital. A wake service was held April 11 at Shurden Chapel in
   Henryetta. Funeral services were held April 13 at Nuyaka Indian
   Baptist Church, where he was a member. Officiating the service was
   Rev. Willis KNIGHT. Burial was in the Roberts Family Cemetery.
   He was a retired rancher of Okfuskee County. He was the son of Kendall
   and Mary ROBERTS, both deceased. He was also preceded in death by a
   daughter, Mary LEITKA, in 1980. He married Stella PIERCE on May 19,
   1938, in Okemah. She survives. He was also survived by four daughters,
   Patty FACTOR, Judy ROBERTS, Patsy PIGEON, and Louise MCNAC, all of
   Okemah; two grandsons that Cainey and Stella adopted and raised, Joe
   LEITKA of Okemah and Chris LEITKA of the U.S. Army in Fort Leonard
   Wood, MO; one brother, Stanley ROBERTS; three sisters, Elsie ROBERTS
   and Selee DEERE, both of Okmulgee, and Ina HICKS of Okemah; 20
   grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.