Willard Price Hall Roberts III, 68, a Missionary Baptist minister and beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully Wednesday, July 27, 2011.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel, 1610 N. Garth in Columbia. Elder Walter Petree Jr. will be officiating. Burial will follow at the Perche Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the funeral chapel.
Price was born July 6, 1943, in Columbia to Willard and Bessie Sexton Roberts, who both preceded him in death.
On Aug. 8, 1970, he married Carla Rowe in Neosho. She and Price were about to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary.
He attended Oklahoma Missionary Baptist Institute in the 1970s and pastored churches in Oklahoma and Missouri.
He also served as an optician for 15 years, co-owned a printing and office supply store in Neosho, served as a computer tech in the Mid-Missouri area and, in his 60s, went to truck driving school and obtained a CDL driving for PAM until his retirement. Price Roberts grew up working. One of his first jobs was hoeing fields for a local farmer at age 12. He helped support his large family, which expanded from two (Price and his brother, William Roberts, who preceded him in death) to nine overnight. His father married Tanzie Campbell, a widow whose seven children included Ernest and Charles Campbell, Hattie Campbell Sims (deceased), Ellie Ridgeway, Fay Riley, Ola Garrett and Bonnie Burnett. Five more children were born to Willard "Tex" and Tanzie. They are Robert and Gary Roberts, Beverly Roberts Gallentine, Nell Matney and Anita Wright.
Price received authorization from a Missionary Baptist church in Arkansas to start a church in his home. Through Unity Missionary Baptist Church, Price continued to preach and teach until his death. He was recently honored in a radio program prepared by his son, Jason Roberts, on KOPN's "The Real Deal Country Show," where recordings of several of his original compositions were played with Price singing and providing his own accompaniment on the guitar. He was an accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Price is survived by his wife, Carla; daughter Lora Baker and her husband, Philip Baker, of Columbia; son Jason Roberts of Columbia; and daughter Stacy Roberts of Centralia. Grandchildren are Dayton Roberts of Joplin, Jackson Roberts of Topeka, Kan., Alisha Mills of Centralia, Stephanie Roberts and Nicole Baker of Columbia. He had one great-grandchild, Qadan Col Moody, son of Stephanie and Sundiala Moody.
Price was preceded in death by Jeffrey Roberts, born to Price and Patricia Wren Roberts in 1966. Patricia, deceased, also was the mother of Lora and grandmother to Stephanie and Nichole.
Online condolences and tributes may be shared with the family at www.bachyager.com.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel, 1610 N. Garth in Columbia. Elder Walter Petree Jr. will be officiating. Burial will follow at the Perche Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the funeral chapel.
Price was born July 6, 1943, in Columbia to Willard and Bessie Sexton Roberts, who both preceded him in death.
On Aug. 8, 1970, he married Carla Rowe in Neosho. She and Price were about to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary.
He attended Oklahoma Missionary Baptist Institute in the 1970s and pastored churches in Oklahoma and Missouri.
He also served as an optician for 15 years, co-owned a printing and office supply store in Neosho, served as a computer tech in the Mid-Missouri area and, in his 60s, went to truck driving school and obtained a CDL driving for PAM until his retirement. Price Roberts grew up working. One of his first jobs was hoeing fields for a local farmer at age 12. He helped support his large family, which expanded from two (Price and his brother, William Roberts, who preceded him in death) to nine overnight. His father married Tanzie Campbell, a widow whose seven children included Ernest and Charles Campbell, Hattie Campbell Sims (deceased), Ellie Ridgeway, Fay Riley, Ola Garrett and Bonnie Burnett. Five more children were born to Willard "Tex" and Tanzie. They are Robert and Gary Roberts, Beverly Roberts Gallentine, Nell Matney and Anita Wright.
Price received authorization from a Missionary Baptist church in Arkansas to start a church in his home. Through Unity Missionary Baptist Church, Price continued to preach and teach until his death. He was recently honored in a radio program prepared by his son, Jason Roberts, on KOPN's "The Real Deal Country Show," where recordings of several of his original compositions were played with Price singing and providing his own accompaniment on the guitar. He was an accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Price is survived by his wife, Carla; daughter Lora Baker and her husband, Philip Baker, of Columbia; son Jason Roberts of Columbia; and daughter Stacy Roberts of Centralia. Grandchildren are Dayton Roberts of Joplin, Jackson Roberts of Topeka, Kan., Alisha Mills of Centralia, Stephanie Roberts and Nicole Baker of Columbia. He had one great-grandchild, Qadan Col Moody, son of Stephanie and Sundiala Moody.
Price was preceded in death by Jeffrey Roberts, born to Price and Patricia Wren Roberts in 1966. Patricia, deceased, also was the mother of Lora and grandmother to Stephanie and Nichole.
Online condolences and tributes may be shared with the family at www.bachyager.com.
Willard Price Hall Roberts III, 68, a Missionary Baptist minister and beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully Wednesday, July 27, 2011.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel, 1610 N. Garth in Columbia. Elder Walter Petree Jr. will be officiating. Burial will follow at the Perche Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the funeral chapel.
Price was born July 6, 1943, in Columbia to Willard and Bessie Sexton Roberts, who both preceded him in death.
On Aug. 8, 1970, he married Carla Rowe in Neosho. She and Price were about to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary.
He attended Oklahoma Missionary Baptist Institute in the 1970s and pastored churches in Oklahoma and Missouri.
He also served as an optician for 15 years, co-owned a printing and office supply store in Neosho, served as a computer tech in the Mid-Missouri area and, in his 60s, went to truck driving school and obtained a CDL driving for PAM until his retirement. Price Roberts grew up working. One of his first jobs was hoeing fields for a local farmer at age 12. He helped support his large family, which expanded from two (Price and his brother, William Roberts, who preceded him in death) to nine overnight. His father married Tanzie Campbell, a widow whose seven children included Ernest and Charles Campbell, Hattie Campbell Sims (deceased), Ellie Ridgeway, Fay Riley, Ola Garrett and Bonnie Burnett. Five more children were born to Willard "Tex" and Tanzie. They are Robert and Gary Roberts, Beverly Roberts Gallentine, Nell Matney and Anita Wright.
Price received authorization from a Missionary Baptist church in Arkansas to start a church in his home. Through Unity Missionary Baptist Church, Price continued to preach and teach until his death. He was recently honored in a radio program prepared by his son, Jason Roberts, on KOPN's "The Real Deal Country Show," where recordings of several of his original compositions were played with Price singing and providing his own accompaniment on the guitar. He was an accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Price is survived by his wife, Carla; daughter Lora Baker and her husband, Philip Baker, of Columbia; son Jason Roberts of Columbia; and daughter Stacy Roberts of Centralia. Grandchildren are Dayton Roberts of Joplin, Jackson Roberts of Topeka, Kan., Alisha Mills of Centralia, Stephanie Roberts and Nicole Baker of Columbia. He had one great-grandchild, Qadan Col Moody, son of Stephanie and Sundiala Moody.
Price was preceded in death by Jeffrey Roberts, born to Price and Patricia Wren Roberts in 1966. Patricia, deceased, also was the mother of Lora and grandmother to Stephanie and Nichole.
Online condolences and tributes may be shared with the family at www.bachyager.com.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel, 1610 N. Garth in Columbia. Elder Walter Petree Jr. will be officiating. Burial will follow at the Perche Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the funeral chapel.
Price was born July 6, 1943, in Columbia to Willard and Bessie Sexton Roberts, who both preceded him in death.
On Aug. 8, 1970, he married Carla Rowe in Neosho. She and Price were about to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary.
He attended Oklahoma Missionary Baptist Institute in the 1970s and pastored churches in Oklahoma and Missouri.
He also served as an optician for 15 years, co-owned a printing and office supply store in Neosho, served as a computer tech in the Mid-Missouri area and, in his 60s, went to truck driving school and obtained a CDL driving for PAM until his retirement. Price Roberts grew up working. One of his first jobs was hoeing fields for a local farmer at age 12. He helped support his large family, which expanded from two (Price and his brother, William Roberts, who preceded him in death) to nine overnight. His father married Tanzie Campbell, a widow whose seven children included Ernest and Charles Campbell, Hattie Campbell Sims (deceased), Ellie Ridgeway, Fay Riley, Ola Garrett and Bonnie Burnett. Five more children were born to Willard "Tex" and Tanzie. They are Robert and Gary Roberts, Beverly Roberts Gallentine, Nell Matney and Anita Wright.
Price received authorization from a Missionary Baptist church in Arkansas to start a church in his home. Through Unity Missionary Baptist Church, Price continued to preach and teach until his death. He was recently honored in a radio program prepared by his son, Jason Roberts, on KOPN's "The Real Deal Country Show," where recordings of several of his original compositions were played with Price singing and providing his own accompaniment on the guitar. He was an accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Price is survived by his wife, Carla; daughter Lora Baker and her husband, Philip Baker, of Columbia; son Jason Roberts of Columbia; and daughter Stacy Roberts of Centralia. Grandchildren are Dayton Roberts of Joplin, Jackson Roberts of Topeka, Kan., Alisha Mills of Centralia, Stephanie Roberts and Nicole Baker of Columbia. He had one great-grandchild, Qadan Col Moody, son of Stephanie and Sundiala Moody.
Price was preceded in death by Jeffrey Roberts, born to Price and Patricia Wren Roberts in 1966. Patricia, deceased, also was the mother of Lora and grandmother to Stephanie and Nichole.
Online condolences and tributes may be shared with the family at www.bachyager.com.
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