Roberta Hart
Mrs. Roberta Jean Hart, 89, a resident of Union City, passed away May 2, 2024, at AHC Health Care.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday at White-Ranson Funeral Home. Rev. Roger Shock officiated. Burial followed in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers were Randy Chapman, Jere Crenshaw, Mike Hardy, Brian Headden, Jon Koob and Bill Townes Jr.
The family received friends from 10 a.m. until the hour of service on Saturday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Hart was born on July 30, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, to the late Alfred J. and Lavina (Johnston) Williams Jr. On June 2, 1956, she married Gerald Hart. He passed away Oct. 15, 2018.
She was a 1952 graduate of Cuyahoga Falls High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and a 1954 graduate of St. Lukes in Cleveland, Ohio, as a Registered Nurse. She worked as a Registered Nurse for Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City, where she was a Nursing Supervisor. She was a member of First Methodist Church in Union City, the former Margaret Carter Sunday School Class, and the Order of the Eastern Star. After retirement, she volunteered as a Pink Lady.
The family requests memorials be sent to: Shriner’s Burn Center, Alzheimer’s Association or the American Heart Association.
She is survived by a daughter, Luann Kay Barkley and husband, Britt, of Union City; two grandsons, Brian Wayne Barkley and wife, Kimberly, of Pike Road, Ala., and William Lynn Barkley and wife, Amy, of Sale Creek; two great-granddaughters, Emiline Barkley and Isla Barkley of Pike Road, Ala.; and great-grandson, Sam Barkley of Pike Road.
She was also preceded in death by her son, Scot Wayne Hart.
Published in The Messenger on 5.8.24