Thursday, April 24, 2008
Nathan David (N.D.) Roberts
The funeral for Nathan David (N.D.) Roberts will be Friday at 10 a.m. in the chapel of Blalock-Coleman & York Funeral Home. Rev. Tom Mathis will officiate. Burial will follow in the Murray Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be at the funeral home from 5 to 9 p.m. today (Thursday).
Online condolences may be made at www.yorkfuneralhome.com.
Mr. Roberts, 74, died Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at 12:13 a.m. at Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Born Oct. 30, 1933 in Murray, he was the son of the late David Onis Roberts and Clara Rubene Winchester Roberts.
An Army veteran of the Korean Conflict, he was a member of Cherry Corner Baptist Church. He had employed at the former Murray Division of the Tappan Company and at Murray State University.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Betty J. Dunn Roberts, to whom he was married Dec. 22, 1956; one son, David Roberts and wife, Stephanie, two daughters, Glenda Garland and husband, David, and Teresa Pierce and husband, Jeff, and one brother, George Roberts and wife, Brenda, all of Murray; five sisters, Frances Allen and husband, John, Mundelein, Ill., Ruth Dowdy, Cabot, Ark., and Ola Mae Dycus and husband, Rick, Virginia Herndon and husband, Larry, and Ruby Vandyke and husband, Ted, all of Murray; three grandchildren, Tim, Wesley and Audrey Roberts.