Willie Roberson, Jr.

Visitation will be observed on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church 1110 Barrow Street Franklin, LA, from 9:00 AM until funeral services at 11:00 AM. Reverend Allen Randle will officiate the services. Burial will follow funeral services in the Franklin Cemetery Main Street in Franklin, LA.

Memories of "Lil Willie", "Bug", "Coach", "Shorty", "Boss Man", as he was known to many, will forever remain in the hearts of his two sons, Keith A. Otis and Ernest Otis; two daughters, Debra Spain and her husband Charles and Carolyn McDaniel and her husband, Johnell all of Franklin, LA; four brothers, Mustafaa Rashada and his wife Ruth of Milwaukee, WI, William Roberson, Sr. and his wife Gloria of Houston, TX, Wallace Roberson, Sr. and Jackie Paul Roberson, Sr. and his wife Angela both of Franklin, LA; four sisters, Geraldine Lewis, Shirley Roberson and Debra Jones and her husband Melvin all of Franklin, LA and Elaine Collins of Houston, TX; and his loving, dedicated Aunt Vivian Isaac of Franklin, LA,  host of fifteen grandchildren, thirty-four great-grandchildren; as well as several other nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Willie was preceded in death by his parents, Willie and Eura Dell Harvey-Roberson, Sr.; his wife, Louvinia B. Roberson; his daughter, Patricia Roberson-Gibson; one grandson, Jernell McDaniel; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Harold Roberson, Sr. and three sisters, Janice Roberson, Evelyn Roberson, and Diane Cleo Roberson-Williams.