Age 99, Lawton - Services will be 2:00 PM Wednesday at Letitia Baptist Church, east of Lawton with Rev. Charles R. McConnell, associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Duncan officiating. Mr. Roberson died Sunday in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under direction of Becker Funeral Home. He was born March 29, 1908 east of Lawton to James Jay and Minnie Lee (Nease) Roberson. John spent his boyhood years in the Bethel Community, east of Lawton. As a young man, he farmed with his father, attended elementary school at Bethel School, and joined Bethel Methodist Church. He married Noma Cosgrove in 1929. She died in 1935. He married Ruth Maye Shaw in March 1940 in Lawton. She died April 8, 1998. During the pre war years he worked as a carpenter in Lawton and Fort Sill for several years. During World War II he farmed. In 1951 he become employed by the Lawton Public Schools as a custodian serving in that capacity until 1973. Survivors include three daughters, Joan Harper and her husband Jim, Duncan, Karolyn Kay Tugmon, Lawton and Sharon Jones and her husband Don, Lawton, twelve grandchildren, twenty seven great grandchildren and thirteen great great grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his parents and twelve brothers and sisters. Memorial contributions may be made to Letitia Baptist Church, 2606 S. State Highway 65, Lawton, OK 73501 or Hospice of Southwest Oklahoma, PO Box 2074, Lawton, OK 73502.