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Leahnora Ann Craft Roberts-Scarborough

1935 - 2024

Leahnora Ann Craft Roberts-Scarborough obituary, 1935-2024

BORN

1935

DIED

2024

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Peebles Main Funeral Chapel - Somerville

18020 U.S. Highway 64

Somerville, Tennessee

Leahnora Roberts-Scarborough Obituary

Leahnora Ann Craft Roberts-Scarborough, age 89, resident of Oakland, Tennessee and wife of the late James Moore Scarborough, departed this life Sunday evening, October 13, 2024 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Ann was born September 3, 1935 in Rives, Tennessee, the daughter of the late George Tyler Craft and Lillian Beatrice Miller Craft. She worked hard her entire life and retired from UT Medical Center, Stuarts and Kroger in Oakland. Ann was a member of Hickory Withe Baptist Church and loved gardening and watching hummingbirds.

Mrs. Scarborough is survived by her son, Donald Kenneth Roberts, Jr. of Clearfield, UT; two daughters, Sherrye A. Roberts Britt (David) of Eads, TN and Shiela R. Roberts Bowers of Oakland, TN; her sister, Bea Harville of Somerville, TN; her brother, Tommy Craft (Betty) of Rives, TN; ten grandchildren, Misty Franklin, DK Roberts, Daniel Roberts, Jennifer Ballard, Danny Mulligan, Allen Bowers, Jr., Dru Roberts, David Roberts, Laurie Bruce and Nicole Britt; fourteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Graveside Services for Mrs. Scarborough will be at 12 noon Friday, October 18, 2024 at the Fayette County Memorial Park Cemetery on Highway 64 with Bro. Dave Biter officiating.

The family requests that memorials be directed to St. Jude’s Memorial Giving, 501 St. Jude’s Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959, American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD 21741 or Paralyzed Veterans of America, 1875 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006.

Arrangements will be provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes & Cremation Center and condolences may be left on our online guestbook at www.PeeblesFuneralHome.com.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Daily Memphian on Oct. 16, 2024.

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