ROBERTA MARIE VANBUSKIRK

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Roberta Marie VanBuskirk, age 68, a resident of rural Mapleton, Kansas, died Sunday, October 22, 2006 at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She was born September 5, 1938, the daughter of Harold Hewlett and Ethel M. Carpenter Hewlett. She graduated from Prescott High School in 1956. She married Charles D. VanBuskirk on April 17, 1960 at the Prescott United Methodist Church by the Rev. Earl Bingham. She first worked as a secretary for the Western Insurance Company and later in the bindery department at Ward-Kraft, all the time raising her three boys and helping her husband on the family farm. Roberta was active with the Mapleton United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women. She also served for several years on the Bourbon County Election Board.

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