Peggy Sue Barnes Roach

Peggy Sue Roach

A bell rang & an angel gained her wings.

Peggy Sue Roach departed this earthly life and joined her “heavenly” family members on Friday, January the 31st. Peggy Sue was born in McNairy County; the daughter of the late Tom and Gladys Moore Barnes. Her childhood was mostly spent in the McNairy County area. She married Rudolph Cambell August 20, 1955 & they resided in Galloway, Tennessee. They divorced about 1967; at which time, Peggy moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Here she met Glenn Rooker, and they were married March 31, 1972. She and Glenn divorced about 1979. She resided in Memphis until she decided that she needed to move back to Morris Chapel, Tennessee to take care of her mother. In 1996 she met James Roach and they were married May 24, 1997 at Morris Chapel Baptist Church. At this time, she moved to Reagan, Tennessee and lived there until James passed November 12, 2018. In 2019 she moved back to her home in Morris Chapel and resided there until she had an accident October 24, 2023. Because she knew that she could not live alone; she moved to Millington, Tennessee to live with her niece Sherry. She lived until she passed on January 31st. 

As a young person, she was a hard worker. She chopped & picked cotton. She was known to pick as cotton as much as the adults. When she moved to Memphis, she had several jobs. She worked at Frito Lay, a meat packing company, and she even took a computer class and had a job key punching. When she moved back to Morris Chapel, she worked at Adamsville Nursing Home in the kitchen as a cook and she worked as caregiver until she and James were married. 

Peggy did not have any children, but she thought of all of nieces and nephews as very special people in her life. 

Peggy was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Gladys Barnes; her husband, James Roach; her sisters, Junell Clausel and Shirley Johnson; brothers-in-law, Johnny Clausel and Bobby Dee Johnson; nieces, Dean Clausel and Gayle Johnson; nephews, Gary and Jerry Clausel, and nephews-in-law, Glen Louis Smith and John Wright, Sr., Also, she had several great nieces and nephews to precede her in death.

Survived by brother, Bobby Barnes (Betty); nieces, Sherry Wright and Diane Clausel; and nephews, Michael Barnes (Kelly), Larry Clausel (Joyce) and Bobby Johnson, Jr (Lisa). Also, she has several great nieces and nephews, whom she loved very much.