ROBERT LEWIS "SPEEDY" BLACK
Funeral services for Mr. Robert Lewis “Speedy” Black, age 96 of Fayette, will be held Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 11 a.m. from Nelson Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Bethlehem Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends Saturday from 10-11 a.m. at the funeral home. He died Monday, April 28, at Morningview Estates.
He was preceded in death by his wife and mother to his daughters, Katie L. Williamson Black and wife, Earline Wiygul; parents, William Jefferson and Alice Gilbert Black; siblings, Sammie Lou B. White, Hubert Black, Verna B. Galloway and Valeria B. Marshall; special nephew and niece, MacDavid Franks and Deloris F. Thompson; and step-son, Marshall Wiygul.
Survivors include two daughters, Marilyn Madison (Nick) and Debbie Roberts (Joe), both of Fayette; four grandchildren, Jeff Roberts (Mandy) of Hoschton, Ga., Kelli Olive (Ralph), Kerin Brock (Matt) and Jill Aldridge (Skip), all of Fayette; thirteen great grandchildren, Jacob, David Thomas, and Hannah Grace Aldridge, Luke, John, and Savanna Brock, Liz, Ethan, and Owen Olive, Ivy, Ruth Ann, Josh and Micah Roberts; three step-sons, Gary Wiygul of Ore., Mike Wiygul of Birmingham and Larry Wiygul of Tenn.
Honorary pallbearers are Morningview Staff and Dr. Fred Yerby and Staff.
Pallbearers will be grandson and great grandsons.
Nelson Funeral Home of Fayette will direct.
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