During World War II, Mrs. McCartney worked with the War Rationing Board and later the Postal Service. She worked with Georgia Power Co. and was a bookkeeper for several years. She also was very active in real estate in the Albany area. Mrs. McCartney was a longtime member of Sherwood Baptist Church and a member of Eastern Star. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, James Thomas and Irene Smith McCartney III; grandchildren, Margaret Ann “Maggie,” Katherine Irene, Thomas Lamar and James Wesley, all of Conroe, Texas; brother-in-law, Nicholas Wright McCartney; sister-in-law, Miriam McCartney Cauthen, both of Tifton; and several nieces and nephews.

You may sign the online guest registry at www.bowen-donaldson.com. Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements.

Bertha Howell

Roberts

OCILLA — Bertha Howell Roberts, 96, of Ocilla, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008 at Palemon Gaskins Nursing Home in Ocilla. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Bethel Baptist Church in Ocilla with great-grandson, Jeremy Drawdy officiating. A eulogy will be given by Mrs. Roberts' granddaughter, Vickie Drawdy. Burial will follow at Frank Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at the funeral home in Ocilla.

Mrs. Roberts was born April 27, 1912 in Bleckley County to the late Oscar and Minnie Collins Howell. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, M. Hughe Roberts; four brothers and three sisters.

She was a homemaker and lived in the Irwin County community most of her life. Mrs. Roberts was a member of Bethel Baptist Church and the Ladies' Sunday School Class.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-love, Marion and Linda Roberts and Oscar and Janis Roberts, all of Ocilla; daughters and sons-in-love, Viviette and Harold Walker and Gwen and Harmon Davis, all of Ocilla; 23 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; five great-great grandchildren; sisters and brothers-in-law, Ruby Roberts of Clinton, Tenn., Ella Wetherington of Valdosta, Sally and Tom Rowell of Fitzgerald and Florence and Roy Touchstone of Jacksonville, Fla., as well as several nieces and nephews.

The family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Bethel Baptist Church c/o Dale Drawdy, 196 Hickory Rd. Ocilla, GA 31774, the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association or to an organization dearest to the donor’s heart.

To sign the online registry, go to www.paulkfuneralhome.com. Paulk Funeral Home in Ocilla is in charge of arrangements.