Ector Co. TX - Obits from the Odessa American Online 5 Feb 2000 Submitted by Charlene Beatty Beauchamp cbodessa@classicnet.net Thanks to the Odessa American Online http://www.oaoa.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OA Online Obituaries. February 5, 2000 Permian Basin Obituaries _________________________________________________________________ Johnnie "John" C. Roberts GARDENDALE — John C. Roberts died Friday, Jan. 28, 2000, at Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Midland. He was born Oct. 20, 1937, in Lordsburg, N.M. Memorial Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Temple Baptist Church in Odessa. John grew up in Hobbs, N.M., and moved to this area in 1975. He worked as a mechanic until 1984 when he purchased hot-shot trucks he leased to McClatchy Bros. Trucking. He quit driving trucks in November 1990 because of a disability. He was later diagnosed as having Parkinson’s disease and sold all his trucks in 1994. He enjoyed having his wife read out loud to him. He is survived by his wife, Geraldine "Jo" Roberts; daughter, Cheryl Leigh Malicoat and her husband, Rusty; sons, Matthew Kelvin Martindale of Media, Pa., Curtis Wayne Martindale of Odessa and wife Katherine, John Vernon Roberts of Gardendale. _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2000 Odessa American. All rights reserved.