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Roberta Williams’ portrait smiled inside Morgan Funerals & Cremations Friday night in front of a grieving congregation singing the Jehovah’s Witnesses Song 111, “He Will Call.”
The song describes how when a person dies, God awakens them and calls them to eternal paradise.
“Friends of our God, though they pass away, will never be forsaken; All those asleep who in God’s mem’ry stay, from death he will awaken,” the congregation sang.
The memorial service for the deceased 40-year-old Rocky Mount woman whose skeletal remains were found off Seven Bridges Road late last month drew around a hundred people.
Williams is one of nine Rocky Mount women whose remains have been found discarded in swampy and wooded fields across three counties in the past few years. Two other women with similar backgrounds still are missing.
Although authorities said no official missing persons report was ever filed for Williams, her family said Friday she was loved.
Williams’ family described her as a caring person who encouraged children to do the right thing in life. She wasn’t “a bad, selfish nor cold-hearted person like some have portrayed her to have been.”
A man riding a four-wheeler found Williams body off the rural stretch of road northeast of the city where four other slain women have been found.
The latest discovery prompted an all-out search of the area, with assistance from more than 100 soldiers with the N.C. National Guard.
Jackie Wiggins, the mother of the late Jackie Thorpe, 35, whose body was also found on the Edgecombe County road, attended the service and said it’s faith that spurred the increase in search intensity. Now, families are finally obtaining answers to long-standing questions.
“It’s really a blessing in disguise,” Wiggins said. “Our voices are finally being heard.”
Juray Tucker, whose daughter Yolanda “Snap” Lancaster, 37, still is missing, called the National Guard’s intervention “long overdue.”
Happy and ecstatic about some attention finally being given to the string of recent body discoveries, Tucker said, “We need all the help we can get.”
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