Mary McRoberts

Mary Louise McRoberts was born on July 18, 1942 Minneapolis, MN, daughter of Cyril P. & Muriel (Fossum) Pesek. She married in Denver July 6, 1963 Barrie Semans McRoberts. Mary graduated from Northrop Collegiate School in Minneapolis in 1960, spent one year at Colorado Woman's college and graduated from the University of Colorado in 1964 with a BA in Art History. She worked as a dental assistant for a few years and was an Avon lady before she became a full-time mother and volunteer. She volunteered for many years in the schools her children attended, even stayed to volunteer at Boulder High School years after the children had graduated.

One of her passions has been studying her and her husband's family history. She has been an active member of the Boulder Genealogy Society since 1971. Mary has been Hospitality Chairman, Vice-President, Treasurer, Librarian and Genealogist of that group. Since 1994, she has been obsessed with Columbia Cemetery in Boulder, finding out about each person buried there, and since 1998 she has been a member of Columbia Cemetery Conservation Corps which is a group interested in conserving the tombstones in that cemetery. She was records keeper for Columbia. In 2007, she finished a many year project about the lives of her parents.

She is a member of Boulder Genealogical Society, Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International, National Genealogical Society, Minnesota Historical Society, Hennepin History Museum, New England Genealogical & Historical Society & several other genealogical societies.

She is survived by son Aaron McRoberts, daughter Corinne Gunn, grandsons William McRoberts, Blake Wright and Owen Wright.

Please do not send flowers, but do contribute to the Columbia Cemetery, in charge David Choate, website: https://bouldercolorado.gov/locations/columbia-cemetery