Naomi Roberts

The funeral service for Naomi Jamison Roberts of Paris will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church in Paris.

The Revs. Joseph A. Geary and Robert D. Martin will officiate.

A graveside service is scheduled at 10 a.m. Thursday in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Salem, Mo.

Chosen as pallbearers are Todd Bell, Wesley and Brently Barrow and Gregory Brown.

Visitation will be 4-6 p.m. today at Ridgeway Funeral Home.

Roberts, 97, died Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, at her residence.  Born Aug. 7, 1916, in Sligo, Mo., she was the daughter of the late Louise Leslie and Nora Gravatt Jamison.

She was married on June 15, 1940, to Sherman Roy Roberts, who died Sept. 13, 2007.

Roberts was a member of Salem (Mo.) United Methodist Church, where she was a children’s Sunday school teacher and member of Women’s Society of Christian Service.

She leaves two daughters: Elyse (Don) Bell of Paris and Celia (Howard) Barnhard of Little Rock, Ark.; four grandchildren: Todd Bell of Baton Rouge, La., Traci (Gregory) Brown of St. Louis, Wesley Barrow of Chicago and Brently (Dennise) Barrow of Little Rock; Five great-grandchildren: Rachel and Andrew Brown, Parker, Payton and Presley Naomi Barrow; and two nieces: Joy (Scott) Ziegemeier of St. Charles, Mo., and Jackie (Mike) Rape of Longmont, Colo.

She also was preceded in death by a son: Sherman Mark Roberts; and a brother: James Robert Jamison.

Memorials may be made to the Paris District of United Methodist Church for Children’s Ministries in Mexico, P.O. Box 28, Paris.

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