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Ector Co. TX - Obits from the Odessa American Online 31 Dec 1998
Sylvia Belew Roach Barber
FORT  WORTH  --  Services  for  Sylvia Belew Roach Barber, 89, of Fort
Worth  will  be  at  11  a.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, 1998, at Mount Olivet
Chapel. A graveside service will be at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, 1998,
at Mitchell Cemetery in Iredell.
Mrs.  Barber  died  Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1998, at Fort Worth Special Care
Center.
Mrs.  Barber  was born Nov. 21, 1909, in Cooperton, Okla., to Florance
Jones Belew and William Lewis Belew, the third of nine children.
She  attended  schools  in Denton County. She moved with her family to
Seminole  in  Gaines  County  in 1940 where she met and married County
Judge Abner Judson Roach in 1944. The couple moved to Bosque County in
1946  and  to  Iredell  in  1952  where they stock-farmed until Judson
retired.
Sylvia was active in community affairs and the First Baptist Church of
Iredell  for many years. She moved to Fort Worth in 1980 following the
death  of her only child, Abner Judson Roach Jr., in March 1980 and of
her husband, A.J. Roach Sr., in September of 1980. She was a member of
Springdale Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
On  Jan.  15,  1983,  she  married James Wilbur Barber, who was a high
school  classmate  in  Denton  County in the 1920s. Mr. Barber died in
1983.
Sylvia  was  preceded in death by five brothers, Avis Belew of Denton,
Mark  and  Dennis  Belew  of  Fort  Worth, Clifton Belew of Jasper and
Gilbert Belew of Baton Rouge, La.
Survivors  include  her brothers, Lewis Belew and Ralph Belew, both of
Fort  Worth;  sister, Gladys Sharbutt of Odessa; grandsons, Carey Paul
Roach  and  Blane  Judson Roach, both of Hico. She is also survived by
her  niece  and  long-time  caregiver  Helen  Belew  Vendrick  and her
husband,  Martin Vendrick, of Arlington; five nephews, nine nieces, 15
great-nieces,    17    great-nephews,   six   great-great-nieces,   11
great-great-nephews and three great-great-great-nephews.
Funeral arrangements are by Mount Olivet Funeral Home.
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