Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[Hazel Jean (Roberts) Stroud]


Fairfield Recorder 
December 30, 2010


HAZEL JEAN ROBERTS STROUD

Funeral Services were held Wednesday at the Eubank Funeral Home in Canton for 
Hazel Jean Roberts Stroud, 86, formerly of Fairfield who died Dec. 26 at Craig 
Methodist Retirement Community in Amarillo.

Mrs. Stroud was born July 17, 1924 near Wills Point to James Berry and Sarah 
Belle Hay Roberts.

She graduated Wills Point high school, attended North Texas University in Denton 
and graduated Henderson County Junior College Nursing School in Athens.

Mrs. Stroud worked in hospitals in Athens, Bonham and Fairfield, and later became 
the activities director at Fairview Nursing Home and then Reunion Senior Citizens 
center, both in Fairfield.

For many years she wrote a column, “Senior Happenings,” for The Fairfield Recorder.

She was a member of First Baptist Church in Fairfield and sang in the choir and 
played the piano for the church extension Sunday school Class.

In 1944, she married her high school sweetheart, Randall.

Mrs. Stroud was preceded in death by her parents; husband; and siblings Pauline 
Roberts, Gladys Barnard, Edith Cooper, Glen Roberts, Ira Roberts, Carl Roberts, 
T.L. “Soupie” Roberts, and Troy Roberts.

She is survived by son David and his wife Terrie of Amarillo and many nieces and 
nephews.

Making arrangements was Eubank Funeral Home in Amarillo.