Hannah Grace Roberts

Wasilla resident Hannah Grace Roberts, 19, died Feb. 19, 2011, from cancer surrounded by family at her home.

Funeral services are at 1 p.m., today at Immanuel Baptist Church, 855 South Trunk Road in Palmer. Visitation is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pastor Ben Burtch will officiate. Graveside services will be at Palmer Pioneer Cemetery. A gathering will immediately follow the services at the church.

Hannah was born Oct. 13, 1991, to Douglas Timothy and Margaret E. (Blanchard) Roberts in Riverdale, Ga. She moved to Wasilla in 2001, where she was home-schooled and graduated. Hannah had worked at All I Saw Cookware in Wasilla. She was a member of the Valley Baptist Tabernacle and Immanuel Baptist Church. Hannah had also worked as a dog trainer for Alaska Assistance Dogs from 2009 to 2011. She enjoyed animals, witnessing for Christ and scrapbooking.

“Hannah was a loving and caring individual whose primary objective in life was to see others come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. All that she was and hoped to be was motivated by that one desire. She finished well,” wrote her family.

Preceding her in death were her sister, Autumn Joy Roberts and brother, Jacob Roberts.

She is survived by her parents, Douglas T. and Margret E. Roberts of Wasilla; brother, Joshua T. Roberts of Wasilla; sisters, Charity F. and JoyAnna H. Roberts, both of Wasilla; grandmothers, Martha L. Blanchard of Wasilla and Janice F. McDaniel of North Carolina.

Arrangements were by Valley Funeral Home.