ROBERTS, Jean Marie 1940 - 2017

ROBERTS, PATTEN, PAULUS, TUTTLE, GRAF, CARR, SCOTT, GANSEN, CLEMENS, SCHROOTEN, MEDLIN, HAWKINSON, ANDREWS, ROMIG, WALKER, ZROSTLIK

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 10/26/2017 at 23:26:16

Jean Marie Roberts, 76, Clear Lake, died Saturday, March 4, 2017, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

A funeral service for Jean will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at the Fertile Church of Christ, 3493 Eagle Ave, with Rev. Rob Perry, and Rev. Dennis Ganz officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, 11495 265th Street, Mason City.

Visitation will be held from 4 until 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North 4th Street, Clear Lake. Visitation will also be held one hour prior to the funeral on Wednesday at the church.

Jean Marie (Patten) Roberts was born on Dec. 2, 1940, in Rockford, the daughter of Berl and Marjorie (Paulus) Patten. Jean received her education in Mason City. She was united in marriage to Robert Tuttle on Nov. 8, 1958, at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Mason City, and to this marriage three children were born, Danny, Vicky, and Sherry. She was united in marriage to Wayne Roberts on May 15, 1976, in Sioux Falls, SD, and to this marriage she gained three bonus children, Allyn, Debra, and Kevin. Jean worked as a cook at the Clear Lake Truck Stop in the late 1970’s, but her great love and enjoyment was being a wife, mother, and grandmother.

Jean enjoyed camping at Lucky’s Last Resort in Plymouth, quilting, traveling, and she loved her two dogs, Jorge and Rosie.

Jean frequented the Fertile Church of Christ.

Those left to cherish her memory is her husband, Wayne Roberts of Clear Lake; her children, Danny (Brenda) Tuttle of Mason City, Vicky (Jim) Graf of Onalaska, WI, Sherry (Ken) Carr of Clear Lake, Allyn (Julie Torstenson) Roberts of Des Moines, Debra Scott and friend Steve Coughenour of Des Moines, and Kevin (Kim) Roberts of Madrid; 13 grandchildren, Eric Gansen, Mike (Kira) Graf, Sarah (Jeremy) Clemens, Katie (Robert) Schrooten, David (Jen) Graf, Benjamin Medlin, John Medlin, Alex and Harrison Hawkinson, Alysha Roberts, Jacob Roberts and fiancée Taylor Andrews, Trisha and Nicole Roberts; 11 great-grandchildren; sister, Joyce Romig of Mason City; half-brother, Chuck Walker of Wyoming; mother-in-law, Viola Roberts of Fertile; sister-in-law, Joann Zrostlik of Shell Rock; a brother-in-law, Robert (Peggy) Roberts of Chico, CA; and her two dogs, Jorge and Rosie; as well as many other extended family members and friends.

Jean was preceded in death by her parents; granddaughter, Nikki Gansen; son-in-law, Jim Scott, brother, Bob Patten; father-in-law, Forrest Roberts, two brothers-in-law, Richard Zrostlik, and Larry Romig and sister-in-law Sue Patten.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel: 641-357-2193, ColonialChapels.com.