Pooler-Mrs. Roberta A. Mixon Urbanski, 90, passed away on Sunday, January 13, 2013 at Hospice Savannah.
Mrs. Roberta was born in Lyons, GA and spent a number of years in Dickson, PA before moving to Binghamton, NY. She was preceded in death by her parents, George W. & Lilly Rachels Mixon; first husband, Mack Mackinwitz; second husband, Wallace Urbanski; sisters, Evelyn Bryant and Mary Lou Dowd; brothers, Thadus Mixon, G.L. Mixon and his wife, Ruby, Medford Mixon and his wife, Nellie, L.K. Mixon and his wife, Eleanor. She was a communicant of St. Staneslaers Church of the Holy Trinity, a former member of the Rosary Society, a member of the American Legion Auxillary # 1305, the Broome County Women's Replublican Club, the Johnson City Women's Republican Club, the Binghampton Pocka Paoders, the Great Tip Club , Jimmy Sturr's Fan Club and the Bill Flynn Fan Club. She loved to sew and worked in a manufacturing factory in Scranton, PA. She worked in the Vogue Shoe Store for many years in Binghampton, was a wiz in making clothes, coats, dresses and anything you needed to make. She enjoyed going to the local and out of town Polka dances and going out to dinner with her friends.
Survivors include her sister and brother-in-law, Hazel & Charles Exley; brothers and sisters-in-law, Richard "R.C." & Rosemary Mixon and Edward and Bernice Mixon; sister-in-law, Leocadia Shelesky and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Wednesday at New Home Baptist Church located at 2616 S.A. Attaway Road in Wrightsville, GA. Mrs. Roberta will lie in state from 1-2 p.m. at the church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Homes – West Chatham Chapel – 901 W. Hwy. 80 – Pooler, GA 31322 (912) 748-2444