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Submitted: 10/25/17 • Approved: 10/25/17 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R136753-G0-S3
Texas
PRIVATE US Army
August 15, 1891 - July 10, 1961
Enlisted: May 10, 1919
Discharged: October 24, 1919
Pvt., 14th Co., Coast Defenses of Oahu, Coast Artillery Corps, United States Army
Son of Jonathan "John" A Roberts
and Laura Grey Scott
Marriage to Lucy Avalon Cox 1929, Muleshoe, Texas
Birth Missouri and death Big Spring, Howard County, Texas
Abilene Reporter News (Abilene, Texas) July 11, 1961
Creed I Roberts Funeral Scheduled
Funeral for Creed I. Roberts, 69, of 1409 Victoria, who died Monday in the Veterans Hospital in Big Spring where he had been hospitalized since Wednesday, will be held in Kiker-Warren Chapel Wednesday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the masonic Cemetery.
Born in Nugent Aug. 23, 1891, Mr. Roberts had spent most of his life in the Abilene area. A veteran of World War I, he served in the Hawaiian Islands in the artillery, being discharged in 1919.
He married in March, 1929. A member of the Fairmont Methodist Church, he belonged to the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans.
Survivors include his wife, Lucy; one brother, Otto of Fayetteville, Ark.; and several nieces and nephews.
Siblings:
Thomas Hugh King Roberts (1882 - 1944)
Bertha Roberts Jackson (1884 - 1928)
John Hollis Roberts (1886 - 1938)
Fletcher Scott Roberts (1888 - 1925)
Lon Otto Roberts (1897 - 1965)
Plot: Section Masonic Block 36 Lot 1 Space 6
Photo Courtesy of David M Habben
Contributed on 10/25/17
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Record #: 136753