Calhoun County AlArchives Obituaries.....Roberts, Mary Gowen October 15, 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley Mellon Dewberry dewberry@cableone.net July 27, 2010, 5:55 pm The Anniston Star, Anniston, Alabama - Oct. 15, 1981 Source: The Anniston Star (Newspaper), Anniston, Alabama Date: October 15, 1981 Prominent Businesswoman Dies She was a member of the Women's Army Corps during World War II. She as professional photographer in Anniston for more than four decades. But her many friends across Calhoun County remembered Mary G. Roberts be st as someone who, in a low-key way, enjoyed lending a helping hand to any one in need. She was a wonderful person with a great zest for life, she really loved people," remembers Angelese Johnson. Miss Roberts, 74, died today at her residence at 227 Main Street, Oxford. Services will be announced by Gray Brown Service Mortuary. While she remembers Mary as "a very private person," Mrs. Johnson adds, "she had a couple of aunts in a nursing home that she was always cooking for and taking things to." Mrs. Johnson and Miss Roberts operated photography studios next door to one another on Noble Street in Anniston. And Mrs. Johnson pays perhaps the ultimate tribute by referring to Miss Roberts as "my competitor and best friend." Miss Roberts served in the WAC during World War II, seeing service in t he Far East, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Daisy Roberts, recalls. After the war she returned to Calhoun County and opened her photography studio.. "She was very studious, liked to read a lot and loved taking pictures. That was her life, " Mrs. Roberts says. Catherine Whitehead says she served with Miss Roberts on the Women's Military Committee at Fort McClellan, a support group that worked with WAC 's at the base. "She was quite an addition to the committee. She entertained women at her home and tried to do anything she could to make the fort a more pleasant place to be," Mrs. Whitehead says. "She was a very warm, caring person toward family, friends and neighbors, but never forced herself on anyone. "She also worked with needy people, but never with any fanfare or by calling attention to herself," Mrs. Whitehead says. She was a member and past president of the Cheaha Photographic Society and headed the certification program at the Mississippi-Alabama Photographic Association. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/obits/r/roberts1758gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb