Kathy Roberts

Kathy Lynn Roberts was greatly loved by her family and friends, and cherished her role as a daughter, sister, wife, aunt, mother, grandmother, and friend. God called her home on November 3, 2025, at 69 years of age.

Kathy was born on September 17, 1956 in Nashville, Tennessee to Dewey Jackson Garrett and Mary Alice Hooser Garrett. She was the oldest of five siblings. She moved several times with her family and landed in Texas when she was in the sixth grade. She graduated from North Mesquite High School, attended Texas Eastern School of Nursing in Tyler, TX where she graduated with a nursing diploma in 1977, and received her RN license. After graduating, she worked as a nurse for 6 years in Mesquite, Lubbock, and Dallas. Though her professional career in nursing was short, she would go on to use her nursing skills to care for and comfort family and friends the rest of her life.

Kathy met Kenneth in their junior high youth group at Town East Baptist Church in Mesquite. They were high school sweethearts and married on August 13, 1977. They first lived in Lubbock while Kenneth f inished at Texas Tech University and began their family there with the birth of their firstborn. They then moved back to the Dallas area and had 5 more children over the next 16 years. The Lord blessed them with 48 years of marriage, 6 children, 16 grandchildren.

Kathy committed her life to Christ as a teenager in high school. Early on in Ken and Kathy’s marriage, when things were financially challenging, Kathy asked Kenneth, “What are we going to do?” Kenneth answered by saying, “ We are going to trust God and He will take care of us.” God was faithful throughout their 48 years of marriage to provide, as He promises in the Bible. Kathy spent her life teaching her children and grandchildren what it means to follow Jesus, study the Bible and serve others. Bible study, and specifically women's Bible study, was an important part of Kathy’s life. She participated in, led, and wrote Bible studies for women's groups at the churches she has been a part of. She would spend hours with her Bible and study aids, preparing to teach the classes she was involved in. She loved the friendship and fellowship with the women she studied with, community group and worship team members, missionaries, and other believers.

God blessed Kathy with a love of music and gifted her with the ability to play the piano both by ear and by reading music. She began her accompanying career as a teenager in the choir at Town East Baptist. She went on to play for church and school choirs, worship teams, and played for weddings, funerals and musical productions, competitions and talent shows. Her family remembers some of her challenges and accomplishments as learning to play the Hallelujah Chorus, accompanying a concert violinist, playing for the wedding of one of the Shanes of “Shane and Shane” as a last minute fill in, and Kenneth’s personal favorite - when she would play for offertory, playing one song with her right hand and another song with her left hand at the same time. Most recently, at Gateway Community Church, she was grateful for the opportunity Aaron gave her to play on the worship team even though she thought maybe she was getting too old to tackle new technology. Kenneth encouraged her to keep playing until the Lord told her to stop.

Kathy is preceded in her homegoing by her father, Dewey Garrett.

Her beautiful life will forever be cherished in the lives of her husband Kenneth; her mother Mary; her six children, Kara Clayton, and her husband Chris; Khris Roberts, and his wife LeAnn; Kendra Peavey, and her husband Andrew; Keith Roberts; Kevin Roberts, and his wife Veronica; and Kallie Bradley, and her husband Josh; her sixteen grandchildren, Corbin, Callen, Cade, Cohen and Kambree Clayton; Isaac, Stephen, Daniel, Sarah and Timothy Roberts; Truman Peavey; Hudson, Elizabeth, Rosemary, John, and Baby Bradley; her siblings Mike Garrett, and his wife Hope; Karen Bentz, and her husband David; Donald Garrett, and his wife Lee Anne; and Kay Parks, and her husband Stan; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

In lieu of flowers, please consider sending a monetary gift designated to the "Harvest City Initiative in Honor of Kathy Roberts" to:

Gateway Community Church

2201 Country Club Road

Wylie, TX 75098