Jay Dee Roberts (2015)
ROBERTS, BEEBOUT
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/26/2015 at 16:34:54
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, March 25, 2015JAY ROBERTS, DECATUR
Jay Dee Roberts, 68, of Decatur, Iowa, died Wednesday, March 18, 2015, at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines.
Visitation was Saturday, March 21, at the Slade-O’Donnell Funeral Home in Leon, Iowa, with a graveside ceremony at Gosport Cemetery in Knoxville.
Jay Dee, the son of William Eugene and Kathryn Elizabeth (Beebout) Roberts was born Nov. 16, 1946. He graduated from Leon High School in 1964. He then started working at various part time jobs, including joining the Army Reserves for a few months. Due to health, he was discharged.
In the mid 1960s, he started driving a truck for Hyman Freightways in Des Moines. He worked construction for a couple of years over that time, but then went back to Hyman’s. He retired from the Teamsters Local 147 in 1999. Jay was married for a few years and was stepfather to two children, Lisa and Dennis.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and brother, Craig Roberts.
He is survived by his brothers, Larry (Betty) Roberts of St. Charles, and Daryl (Mary Lynn) Roberts of Kansas City, Mo.; sister-in-law, Flo Roberts of Winterset; and several other family members and friends.
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