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Retired Librarian
(October 16, 1907--April 23, 1998)
POTSDAM--The funeral for Laura Jenkins Roberts, 90, formerly of Mayfield Drive, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Buck Funeral Home, Norwood, with the Rev. Linda Harris officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Norwood. Mrs. Roberts died Thursday morning at Community Nursing Home, where she had been a resident since Feb. 6. Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. She was head librarian at Norwood Library until her retirement in 1977 and served as president of the library's board of trustees. Born October 16, 1907, in Norwood, daughter of Frank and Fannie Dickinson Jenkins, she married Frank H. Roberts on Jan. 12, 1957. He died Dec. 17, 1979. Surviving are four cousins, Schuyler Alverson, Rensselaer Falls, Carl Alverson, Lisbon, Veda Bell, Huvelton, and Eleanor Wait, Yarmouth Port, Mass.
(Taken from the Friday, April 24, 1998 edition of the Watertown Daily Times). |