Roberts, Gladys

Services: Have been held.

Mrs. Gladys Roberts, 92, of Lubbock, died Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003, at her home.

She was born on June 5, 1911, in Duke, Okla., to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Jones

She lived her early life in Oklahoma. As a teenager, her family moved to Texas. She married P.K. Roberts on Jan. 21, 1948, in Clovis. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Portales and established Valley Courts, which was a fruit and vegetable market combined with a small motel. Later they opened Roberts Mercantile. In the mid 1960s they moved their business to a market on the highway to Clovis. She attended the Church of God. Shortly after her husband died, she moved to her daughter’s home in South America. About 1982, they returned to Portales and then in 1996 they moved to Lubbock.

She was preceded in death by her parents; five sisters; a step-son, Jerry Roberts; and a step-daughter, Polly Cook; and her husband, P. K. Roberts.

Survivors include a son, P. K. Roberts Jr. (and wife, Gail) of Austin, Texas; a daughter, Frances Oglesby of Lubbock; two step-daughters, Jeanette Sanderson of Flower Mound, Texas, and Gloria Stangle (E.C.) of St. George, Utah; three grandchildren, Burt Oglesby, Elissa Roberts and Jake Roberts; two great-grandchildren, Ronald and Kimberly Oglesby; and a great-great-grandchild, Madison Marie Oglesby.

Scott P. Reeves will officiate the services.

Burial will be at Portales Cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers will be all family and friends.

Arrangements are by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales.