John Edd Roark's Obituary
Celebration of life services will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday March 21 in Memorial Gardens cemetery in Wellington with the Rev. C. W. Parker officiating. Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Home of Memphis.
Edd was born to Lee and Nova Roark during a blizzard on December 19, 1932 in grandmothers home in Lutie, TX. He was reared in the Lutie community and graduated from Samnorwood High School in 1949. He married Patsy Thompson in 1951 in Lela, TX. Edd worked as a car salesman for decades in Amarillo and the surrounding area. He later moved to Memphis as a cotton broker.
Edd had been an active member of AA since 1969. He was a popular speaker at The Top of Texas club, the Moss Lane club and in Memphis. He also worked with an AA group at the prison in Childress for several years. He was a Methodist. Edd was a prankster, a charmer and a teller of tall tales.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; two infant children Chloe Shane and John Edd Jr.; and a sister Billye Lee Sorgee.
Survivors include a daughter, Chan Roark and her husband Sid Ham of South Fork, CO; two grandchildren, Leigh Bonner Borda and her husband Michael of Atlanta, GA, and Max Bonner of Dothan, AL.; a great-grandson, Ace Borda of Atlanta; a sister Pat Karnes and her husband Bill of Plano and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorials be to Kindred Hospice - Sky Camp, 3232 Hobbs Road, Amarillo, Tx 79109; Wellington Cemetery Association PO Box 321, Wellington, TX 79095; and the Panhandle Museum, WTAMU Box 60967, Canyon, TX 79016.
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