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| Oplin Cemetery, Oplin, Texas |
| Abilene Reporter-News, Tuesday Morning, April 5, 1951, Abilene, Texas |
| Roberson Rites At Oplin Today |
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Funeral services for John A. Roberson, retired Abilene farmer who died Wednesday
in Hendrick Memorial Hospital, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday in Oplin. Services will be conducted in the Church of Christ with Ministers Hollis Yealds and Mack Richardson, both of Abilene, and Johnny Ivy of Fort Worth officiating. Burial will be in the Oplin Cemetery in charge of the Masonic Lodge. The body will be carried to Oplin Thursday morning in an Elliott coach. Mr. Roberson, who would have celebrated his 60th birthday Thursday, had farmed in the Oplin community for almost 30 years before moving to Abilene 10 years ago. He was a native of Comanche. He served overseas in World War I with the field artillery, and was with the Occupation Army about a year after the war. He was a member of the Oplin Masonic Lodge, the Baird Eastern Star, the Eugene Bell American Legion Post. Survivors include the widow, the former Florence Atwood of Tecumseh; a son, Jerry Roberson of Winter; two grandchildren, Butch, and Mareha Roberson; three brothers, Robert and Tom Roberson of Baird and Carl Roberson of Abilene, and two sisters, Mrs. H. B. Straley of Holdenville, Okla., and Mrs. Lee Gotcher of San Angelo. |
