Sally Lou Newby Roberts

(June 6, 1909 ~ November 4, 1959)

Sally Lou Newby Roberts, daughter of Arthur Lee Newby and Myrtle Lee Fisher, married to Henry Alton Roberts and buried in McBee Cemetery, Ovalo, Taylor County, Texas.

Winters (TX) Enterprise November 6, 1959, p. 6 (from research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh)

Mrs. Alton Roberts, 50, died at 9:10 a. m. Wednesday at her ranch home near Bradshaw, following an extended ilhiess. Born Sally Lou Newby June 6, 1909 at Bradshaw where she spent her early childhood, she graduated from Winters High School in 1927 and attended McMurry, Sul Ross and North Texas State Colleges.

She taught school at Longworth for four years and in Winters two years. She married Alton Roberts April 26, 1935 in Abilene.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in the First Methodist Church in Winters, with the Rev. E. L. Craig, pastor, officiatinig. He was assisted by Rev. Albert Lunday, professor of Bible at Hardin Simmons University.

Burial was in the McBee Cemetery at Ovalo.

Survivors include her husband, two sons. Donald Alton and Dan Newby, both of the home; one brother. George Newby of Ballinger; three sisters. Mrs. R. H. Boone of Abilene, Mrs. Albert Spieler of San Antonio and Mrs. Price Middleton of Ballinger;. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Newby of Ballinger and her paternal grandmother, Mrs. J. E. Newby of Abilene.

Pallbearers were Pat Pattenon of Abilene. Matt Hays of Odessa, R. L. Williams of Dallas, C. W. Smith of Bradshaw, Leo Tucker of Alpine and J. V. Riley of Austin.