Juanita Catherine was born on Feb. 18, 1941 to Catherine Carreathers, in Clarksville, Texas. At a very young age, she moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, with her mother and sister, where her mother met and married Thomas Lee Grayson. He raised them both as his own children.


She professed a love for Christ and was baptized at Jerusalem Baptist Church. Her formative years were developed in the Muskogee Public School System.


Juanita moved to Austin, Texas in 1993, and after a brief illness, the Lord dispatched a flock of Angels to lead her home through the Golden Gates of Heaven. The family that went home before her; her Mother and Father, her husband, Roosevelt Cobb, a sister, Rosie Lee Grayson, her sons, Larry Williams and David Cobb, and a great-grandson, Sir Shawn Cobb.


Those that remain to celebrate her homegoing; her daughters, Shelia Chandler and LaVonda Cobb, Austin, Texas; a son, Arnell Chaplin, Oklahoma; her sisters, Elverna [DeVoy] Hill, Belton, Missouri, Minnie Lou [James] Demps, Austin, Texas; 2 half-brothers, Roy Ewing and Lawyer Ewing; 12 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and a caravan of other relatives and friends.


The Sacred Farewell will be held on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 11:00 A.M. in the Divine Love Christian Fellowship. Bishop Michael Webber, the gracious host, Superintendent Dennis Watson, Presiding and Reverend DeVoy Hill, Eulogist. The Christian committal will follow in the Booker T. Washington Cemetery in Muskogee. You may visit Mrs. Cobb, as she slumbers in peaceful repose at the Keith D. Biglow Funeral Directors, Inc., on Friday from 12 Noon to 6 PM.