Roberts reflects on achievements as mayor, businessman

  • Cleo’s Restaurant before it burned. Roberts is one of the youngsters close to the car. CONTRIBUTED
    Cleo’s Restaurant before it burned. Roberts is one of the youngsters close to the car. CONTRIBUTED
  • Jimmy Roberts shows Frances his golf score on the card from the Scotland trip. GREENBERRY MOORE/Staff
    Jimmy Roberts shows Frances his golf score on the card from the Scotland trip. GREENBERRY MOORE/Staff
  • Front Row (l-r): Cynthia (Roberts) Bradberry, Frannie Bradberry and Sara Roberts, and Frances Roberts; Back Row (l-r): Ella Bradberry, Hodges Bradberry (son-inlaw), Martha Bradberry and Jimmy Roberts . CONTRIBUTED
    Front Row (l-r): Cynthia (Roberts) Bradberry, Frannie Bradberry and Sara Roberts, and Frances Roberts; Back Row (l-r): Ella Bradberry, Hodges Bradberry (son-inlaw), Martha Bradberry and Jimmy Roberts . CONTRIBUTED
    To describe former Gray Mayor Jimmy Roberts’ journey in life as one “from the outhouse to the penthouse” would not be stretching the truth too far.Roberts, who will be 86 in October, didn’t have the luxury of a bathroom in either of the first two houses in which his family lived.“We didn’t have a bathroom when I lived in Clinton. We had an outhouse,” he commented las...

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