ROBERTS, Forrest Leroy "Frosty" 1908 - 2003

ROBERTS, BARTLETT, WHITMORE, MILLER, ZROSTLIK, JACKSON, VIBBARD, BUTTS, SCHULER, MEEKS, PURDY

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 12/19/2017 at 11:56:02

Forrest Leroy "Frosty" Roberts, 95, of 211 E. Main, Fertile, Iowa, died Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral Services were held Monday, Oct.13, at the Church of Christ, Fertile with Pastor Curt Gallmeyer and Pastor Dennis Ganz officiating. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City, Iowa. The family suggests memorials to Hospice of North Iowa.

Forrest was immersed in baptism and became a member of the Church of Christ in March 1999. He was born Sept. 26, 1908, at Colo, Iowa, the only child of Burt Leroy Roberts and Emma (Bartlett) Roberts. When Forrest was three months old his father died at the age of 24 of spinal meningitis. In 1912 his mother married Orlan Whitmore and in later years they moved to the Fertile area.

Forrest "Frosty" attended the Fertile school and also drove school bus as a student. He was a 1927 graduate of the Fertile High School.

He was united in marriage to Viola Miller on Dec. 20, 1933 in Mason City. To this union were born three children, Wayne Roberts, Donald Roberts and Joanne (Roberts) Zrostlik.

Their first home was on a 40-acre farm east of Pine City, Minn., which they farmed for three years. In 1936 they bought a farm three miles south east of Fertile and moved there March 1, 1937. They farmed there for 30 years.

Forrest "Frosty" also drove semi while still on the farm and for several years after moving to Fertile he hauled Borden's ice cream. Frosty was a hard worker and he loved to work.

Forrest is survived by his wife, Viola Roberts, of Fertile and two sons, Wayne Roberts and his wife, Jean, Clear Lake, and Donald Roberts and his wife, Peggy, of Chico, Calif.; one daughter, Joanne Zrostlik and her husband, Richard, of Shell Rock, Iowa; eleven grandchildren, Allyn Roberts, Debra and her husband, Jim, Scott, Kevin and his wife, Kim, Roberts, Air Force Capt. Michael and his wife, Deborah, Zrostlik, Rick and his wife, Dr. Julie, Zrostlik, Dianne and her husband, David, Suntken, Leanne Zrostlik, Steven, Scott, Ellen Roberts, and Cheryl (Roberts) and husband, Gordon Olson; nine great-grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; several step-great-grandchildren; one brother, Lloyd Whitmore and wife, Lena, of Liscomb, IA; two sisters Ethel Jackson and husband, Ralph of Garwin, Iowa; Mae Vibbard and husband, Jess, of Liscomb, Iowa; brothers and sisters-in-law Forrestine Whitmore, St. Anthony, Iowa, Corrine Miller, Clear Lake, Verna Butts, Calif., Iva Schuler, Forest City, Leona Meeks, Ill., Glen and Flo Miller, Texas, Amos and Irene Miller, Ind., Orland and Marlys Miller, S.D. and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Carl Whitmore; sister and brother-in-law, Ruth and James Purdy; brothers and sister-in-law, Verle Miller, Alvin and Bernice Miller, Camille Miller, Lewis Butts, and Darrell Meeks.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of arrangements.