SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Roberta Ivern Woods of Scott City will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. Elder Bill Bowen will officiate, with burial in Lightner Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 8 a.m.
Woods, 73, died Friday, April 23, 1993, at the Lutheran Home.
She was born July 4, 1919, in Salem, Ill., daughter of Lewis Jefferson and Bertha Baker Carlton. She married James Sturm Sept. 26, 1936. She later married Fred T. Woods Jan. 3, 1953.
Woods attended the South Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cape Girardeau.
Survivors include her husband; a son Jim Sturm of Scott City; a daughter, Pat Dale of Cape Girardeau; a brother, Ralph Carlton of Scott City; two sisters, Ruby Keesee of Scott City, Ruth Lemons, El Cajon, Calif.; seven grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
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