Tift-Lee-Dooly County GaArchives Obituaries.....ROBERTS, CURTIS  CREED May 25, 2010
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ALBANY HERALD
TIFTON- REV. CURTIS CREED ROBERTS, 89 OF TIFTON, DIED TUESDAY, MAY 25,2010,AT 
TIFT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 2:00 
P.M.,FRIDAY, MAY 28,2010,AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF TIFTON WITH 
DR. GLENN MARTIN AND THE REV. JOHN B. CARROLL OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW 
AT THE LENNOX CITY CEMETARY. THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS FROM 7:00 TO 9:00 
P.M. THURSDAY MAY 27,2010 AT ALBRITTON-BEAUMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS.   
GRANDCHILDREN OF REV. ROBERTS WILL SERVE AS PALLBEARERS.UNITED METHODEST 
MINISTERS AND THEIR SPOUSES WILL SERVE AS HONORARY PALLBEARERS.  BORN NOVEMBER 
20,1920 IN LENOX TO THE LATE WALTER C. ROBERTS AND ANNIE GODWIN ROBERTS, REV. 
ROBERTSWAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE OF FIFTY FIVE YEARS ,PAULINE POWELL 
ROBERTS,WHO DIED IN 2003.   REV. ROBERTS SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY IN WW11 IN 
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY. HE HAD LIVED IN TIFT COUNTY SINCE THE LATE 1980'S, AND 
WAS A RETIRED UNITED METHODIST MINISTER AND AUTHOR OF SEVERAL BOOKS.  REV. 
ROBERTS ENTERED THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY IN JUNE 1963; WAS ORDAINED AS A DEACON 
ON JUNE 8.1966; COMPLETED APPROVED COURSE OF STUDY AT CANDLER SCHOOL OF 
THEOLOGY OF EMORY UNIVERSITY IN 1969; AND WAS ORDAINED AN ELDER ON JUNE 
4,1970. REV. ROBERTS SERVED PASTORAL APPOINTMENTS AT BROOKFIELD ,MT. 
CALVARY,HERRING MEMORIAL,MORVEN,BARNEY,MT. ZION,UNION,TWIN CITY,NEW 
BEULAH,LEESBURG,UNADILLA,PINEHURST,AND OCILLA. AFTER RETIREMENT ,REV. ROBERTS 
SERVED SUPPLY APPOINTMENTS IN IRWINVILLE,PITTS,AND LEILA,TOGETHER WITH AN 
INTERIM APPOINTMENT AT TRINITY IN TIFTON.   REV. ROBERTS IS SURVIVED THREE 
SONS AND THRE DAUGHTERS IN LAW,DR.DON WAYNE AND WANDA ROBERTS OF CHULA,DR. 
MARCUS AND MARJIE ROBERTS OF TIFTON,AND RANDY AND LAURA ROBERTS OF ANDERSON 
S.C.;ONE SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW, DORRIS AND THE REV.DAN ROBINSON OF LENNOX; 
HIS GRANDCHILDREN ANTHONY C.AND MANDY ROBERTS,KELLY D.AND PHILLIP JONES,BRYAN 
S. ROBERTS, DIANA R.AND BHART PATEL,ALLEN M.AND EDEN ROBERTS,AND JASON A. 
ROBERTS;AND HIS GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN DYLAN B. PATEL,TYLER J. PATEL,JAYDEN B. 
PATEL, LANDEN C. ROBERTS, AND AMBER J. JONES.

Additional Comments:
HE WAS OUR PASTOR IN LEESBURG AND DEEPLY LOVED .I AM LUCKY TO HAVE KNOWN HIM.

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