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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size:16.0pt">OBITUARY: </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">JUANITA LORETTA BARRETT SWAIM ROBERTS
(MRS GERALD M ROBERTS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Juanita
Barrett Roberts (Ms Juanita) went to meet her precious Lord and
Savior at home
with her longtime husband and care giver, Gerald Merle Roberts.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She was under the care of
Aveanna Hospice and
a victim of COVID and Alzheimer disease.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 1.5in 321.75pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Juanita
was the only child of Rev. G.D. and Rachella Barrett; and in
1951, she came to
Huntsville from Johnson City, TN, while a junior in high school,
when her
father accepted the pastory of Huntsville Park Baptist Church.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She
later was in the first graduating class of Butler High School.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>After graduation, she
moved to Augusta, GA with
her first husband, Kenneth Leland Swaim, while he was in the
Service.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She returned to
Huntsville and worked as a
secretary for ABMA at Redstone Arsenal before quitting and going
to cosmetology
school in Huntsville.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>After
graduation,
she opened and ran her own beauty shop, Statton Styles, the
“best little hair
house in town.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She
retired in 2001 when
her second husband retired, and they traveled a lot with Wyndham
Resorts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 1.5in 321.75pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Her
hobbies were square and round dancing, sewing, bowling, and
singing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, the
love of her life were the
children.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She never met
a baby she didn’t
like!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She was always
active in the
children’s ministry at every church she attended and was always
loved and known
as “Ms Juanita.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And she
loved them and
loved doing the Children’s Sermon on Sunday morning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 1.5in 321.75pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">“Ms
Juanita” ran the Children’s Ministry at Willowbrook Baptist
Church for 18 years
and was active in the choir, puppet ministry, and children’s
ministry before
moving to First Baptist Church in 1991 where she was active in
the Nursery, Sanctuary
and Hallelujah choirs, and the Living Christmas Tree choir.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She also sang bass with the
Rocket City
Chorus, the local chapter of the international Barbershop
Harmony Society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"
style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 1.5in 321.75pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Juanita
is survived by her husband of 34 years, Gerald M Roberts, two
sons Jann (Jenny)
and Brian (Kate) Swaim, two step sons Brad (Rita) and Bruce
Roberts, and
several grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She
will be
greatly missed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 1.5in 321.75pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Donations in
lieu of flowers may be given to her favorite charity, St. Jude
Children’s
Research Hospital.</span></p>
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