Roberta Yarbro (10-23-10) services 10-28-10

Roberta Yarbro, 64, of Savannah, died Saturday, Oct. 23.

She was born in Savannah, the daughter of the late Harry Lee Armstrong and Annie Vivian Higgins Dixon.

Roberta had worked for Brown Shoe Company. She was a member of the St. John Missionary Baptist Church.

Services will be held on Thursday, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m., at Shackelford Chapel in Savannah with Sam Reeves officiating. Burial will follow in the Memory Gardens at Savannah.

She is survived by a daughter, Lolissa Griffin of Cordova, Tenn.; three sons, James Wallace of San Diego, Calif., Benard Wallace and Anthony Wallace, both of Savannah; three sisters, Hattie, Inez, Georgia Dixon, all of Savannah; two brothers, Robert Lee Dixon and Henry Sank Casey, both of Savannah; 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by two brothers, James Howard and R.D. Dixon; two sisters, Annie Laura Dillihunt and Maudie Faye Moore; and a granddaughter.