Funeral services for Loyd (Slim) Roberts were held Saturday in the Spur Church of Christ. Bro. Harry E. Johnson officiated.Roberts was born in Comanche, December 24, 1895. He came to Dickens County in 1924 and had lived in Lawton, OK for the past two years. December 25, 1932 he married Miss Lillian Black. He died December 5 in Lawton.
Pallbearers were Gifford Phillips, Norton Barrett, D.B. Ince, Floyd Barnett, Joe McDaniel and O.D. Thompson.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lillian Roberts; a son, Alfred; a daughter, Marlene, Lawton; 2 brothers, Earl and Arthur, Haskell; one sister, Mrs. Josie Rinehart, Spur.
Interment was in Spur cemetery with Chandler Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, December 11, 1952
From the records of Lillian Grace Nay, Transcribed by B. Hodges, August 2004
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