Mrs. Sharon Kay Bays Roark

Mrs. Sharon Kay Bays Roark, age 68 departed this life on Saturday, September 24, 2016 in Clay County, Kentucky. She was born on Monday, March 29, 1948 in Knox County, Kentucky to Hardin and Mary Wilson Bays. She was a member of the holiness church, a cosmetologist and worked as a nurse's aide at the Manchester Memorial Hospital and was a caregiver.

She leaves to mourn her passing her husband: Charles Roark, although she had no children, she claimed her sister Linda's children as her own: Mechelle Hoskins Johnson, Angela Hoskins Jackson and Jerry Jason Hoskins. She loved all of her nieces and nephews dearly. She also leaves the following brother and sisters to mourn her passing: Linda Bays Harris and her husband Estill, Bonnie Bays Jackson and her husband John, Jerry Bays and his wife Zelma, and William "Kenny Boy" Frederick and his wife Lovella as well as a host of friends and family.

She is preceded in death by her mother: Mary Wilson Bays, her father: Hardin Bays and 3 brothers: Hardin Bays, Jr., James "Bill" Bays, and Joel Bays.

Funeral Services for Mrs. Sharon Kay Bays Roark will be conducted on Tuesday, September 27 at 2 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Jim Smith will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Bays Family Cemetery in the Ham Hollow Community.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday after 12 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Rominger Funeral Home.