Obituary:  Artell Green Roberts, November 1969

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
November 2010

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The Observer, Robert Lee, Coke County, TX - November 1969

ROBERTS

Services Sunday for Artell Roberts

Funeral services for Artell Green Roberts, 67, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday 
in Robert Lee Baptist Church.  Burial was in Robert Lee Cemetery directed 
by Newby Funeral Home.

Mr. Roberts was prounced dead about 2:30 p.m. Friday in his pickup on Texas 
Highway 208 one mile south of Robert Lee.

Justice of the Peace Roy P. Ross ruled death by natural causes, apparently 
a heart attack.  He was returning home from San Angelo.

Mr. Roberts was born March 7, 1902 in Brown County.  He came to Coke County 
as a child with his parents.  He was married to Lola Taylor in 1926 in 
Robert Lee. She died in 1941.

He was married to Reba Woods Feb. 14, 1948 in Robert Lee.  He was a Baptist.

He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Kay Pitcock of Lubbock; two 
sisters, Mrs Calvin (Leona) Wallace and Mrs. Alice Benton, both of Robert Lee 
and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Finis Harmon, Crowley Harmon, Lewis Heuvel, Maurice Yarbrough, 
James McClure, Fred McCabe Sr. All of Robert Lee and Delbert Vestal of Ballinger 
and W. H. Maxwell of Bronte. 


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