Ms. Roberta B. Tucker Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Ms. Roberta Tucker passed away quietly at her home on Saturday, December 21, 2013. Funeral services for Mrs. Tucker will be held at 1pm Saturday December 28, 2013 at Friendship Baptist Church 1237 House Street Columbia, SC. 29204. The family will receive friends at the church from Noon until the hour of service. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Columbia, SC. A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel is in charge of these arrangements. Roberta B. Darby Tucker, 66, was born January 20, 1947 in Williamsburg County, South Carolina to the late Samuel and Lillian Darby. After thirty-three years of loyal service to Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital, she retired. Mrs. Tucker was an active member of Solomon’s Temple where she faithfully served on the kitchen committee and as a pastor’s aid. Roberta spent many hours cooking, catering and using her gift in growing beautiful plants. She also enjoyed traveling. Anyone who encountered Roberta Tucker came to love her. They knew her by her charitable spirit and the love she had for her family and Christ. Mrs. Tucker was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard Tucker; sisters, Mrs. Geraldine Darby and Mrs. Lillie Bell Izzard; and brothers, Mr. Samuel and Mr. Eugene Darby. John 11:25 & 26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Left to cherish precious memories are; her sons, Anthony (Susan) and Calvin Tucker; granddaughters, Tabitha Nicole Goodwin, and Whitney and Amanda Sullivan-Tucker; sisters, Dorothy Franklin, Mary Henry, Geneva James, Dora Edward Miller and Patricia Dunmore; brothers, Swails and Harry Darby and Timothy and Leroy June; two great grandsons and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Ms. Roberta B. Tucker

January 20, 1947 - December 21, 2013