Charlotte Lucile Roberts Kuehn

Published 12:01 am Thursday, September 10, 2015

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April 13, 1945 – Sept. 4, 2015

NATCHEZ — Services for Charlotte Lucile Roberts Kuehn, 70, of Sorrento, Fla., who died peacefully surrounded by her loving family Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, at Shands Hospital on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainsville, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Natchez with the Rev. Steve Lammons, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Columbus officiating.

Burial will follow at the Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time Saturday at the church.

Mrs. Kuehn was born April 13, 1945, in Hattiesburg, the daughter of George Hudson Roberts and Nina Sanford Roberts Reeves.

Charlotte grew up in Brookhaven and was a graduate of Brookhaven High School and Copiah-Lincoln Junior College. She went on to attended the University of Southern Mississippi. She married Don Kuehn on April 5, 1970, at the First Presbyterian Church in Brookhaven.

Charlotte was honored to have been selected Miss Brookhaven in 1964, to promote and support her beloved Brookhaven.

Her priority was always to her faith in Christ, her family and her friends. She loved all of the family gatherings and never met a stranger.

Mrs. Kuehn was preceded in death by her parents; her stepfather, Robert D. Reeves Jr.; and two aunts, Toni Sanford Smith Lent and Inez Sanford Shaw, who held a special place in her heart.

Survivors include her husband, Donald Charles Kuehn; one daughter, Bonnie Elizabeth Kuehn Trueblood and husband, Robert Todd Trueblood; two grandsons, Lucas Case Trueblood and Justin Ray Trueblood of Sorrento; two sisters, Emily Roberts Case of Hattiesburg and Jenny Roberts Hebert and husband, Dr. Charles Hebert, of Birmingham, Ala.; a special aunt, Kathleen Sanford Ory of Baton Rouge; and a number of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Pallbearers will be Richard F. Kuehn Jr., Charles E. Kuehn, Justin Lee Holladay, William Timothy Case, Jason Bailey and Phillip E. Hale.

Honorary pallbearers will be Richard F. Kuehn Sr., Robert J. Kuehn Jr., Steve Wooten, Ernie Clark, Paul R. Kuehn, Wayne McCarsell, Keith J. Breaux, Elton Merritt, Dix Doering, John Sanford Smith, Dr. C.C. Miller Jr. and John A. Leckie.

Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.