Grady Lafayette Roberts III, age 81, of Jonesboro, Georgia, passed away peacefully on June 22, 2026. Born on April 8, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University Hospital to parents, Martha Katherine Stewart Roberts of Carrollton, Georgia and Grady Lafayette Roberts, Jr of Douglasville, Georgia.

Grady was in the first graduation class in 1963 at Lakeshore High School in College Park, Georgia. Grady was the second of four children and grew up in East Point, Georgia. His eldest brother, Stewart lives in Covington, Georgia. His younger brother, David lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee. And, his sister, Sandra Robertson, lives in Cumming, Georgia.

From 1966 until 2002, he worked in various operational positions at Delta Air Lines in Atlanta. He married Nancy Jane Looney in Hapeville in 1964 and had two children with Nancy – Jefferson (1966) and Amy (1970). They divorced in 1975, and he married Barbara Jean Steele in 1980, and they had a daughter, Lee Ann (1981).

Nancy preceded him in death in 2012. Grady is survived by his wife, Barbara Roberts, and his children - Jefferson Roberts, Amy Roberts Shelby, Lee Ann Roberts. Also, he has grandchildren – Ethan Shelby, Marshall Shelby, and Caitlin Kirtland. And, a great granddaughter, Cora Kirtland.

A visitation will be held at Ingram’s Funeral Home in Cumming, Georgia on Friday, July 3 between 9am and 11am. His Celebration of Life service will follow at Ingrams at 11am. The gravesite service will start at 3pm at the College Park Cemetery, 3600 Adams St, College Park, GA 30337. You will find the marked grave near the flagpole.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be given to the family to cover burial expenses.

Grady will be remembered as a very kind and generous person who genuinely cared about people and viewed others as better than himself. This was not something that he preached to others, but merely how he lived his life. We read in Phillippians 2:3, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”. In the final weeks before he passed, we could really see God sanctifying his servant, Grady. On multiple occasions, while visiting Heaven, he reported that he saw his mother who passed in 2006, he saw Jesus, he saw three angels that wanted to take him “home”, and he saw children playing. We have great peace knowing that his eternity is secure!