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Noonie (Young) Roberts

August 8, 1906 ~ 2000

NOONIE ROBERTS of Brooksville died Wednesday in Shawnee. She was 93.

She was born August 8, 1906, in Greenwood, Mississippi. She was the daughter of Elijah and Hattie Young.

Mrs. Roberts was born and reared in Greenwood, where she lived most of her life. She also lived in Detroit before moving to Phoenix, Arizona, after living there more than 30 years.

She had lived in Brooksville for a year.

She was a sharecropper for numerous years.

While in Detroit she was a member of Corinthian Baptist Church. While living in Phoenix, she was active and instrumental in the Beacon Light Seventh Day Adventist Church.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, Annie Thompson; one son, John Young; her parents and five sisters and two brothers.

Survivors include one sister, Liza James of Tennessee; granddaughters, Shirley Ringo of Detroit, Michigan; Christina Short and Wanda Coleman, both of Brooksville; three grandsons, Ron Thompson of Smyrna, Georgia; James Thompson and Charles Watkins, both of Detroit, Michigan; fifteen great-grandchildren and thirteen great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday at Cooper Funeral Home.

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