Marjorie Marie Roberson

Marjorie Roberson, 104, of Lincoln, NE passed away on Friday, March 1, 2024 at the Gateway Vista Assisted Living in Lincoln, NE. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 8, 2024 at Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson, IA with Rev. Mike Harvey officiating. Visitation with the family will be held one hour prior to the funeral beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Carson Cemetery. Memorials: Directed to the family. Marjorie Marie Roberson, 104 years 11 months was born in Carson, IA on March 24, 1919, to Caroll and Pauline (Hartje) Graham. She grew up on the farm near Carson where she did all the chores a child growing up on a farm would do. She would collect the eggs, gather corn cobs for the cook stove and later learn to cook for the family and hired hands. Marjorie graduated from Carson High School. After graduation she attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. She told stories about selling peanuts at football games and living in the boarding house on campus. After attending the university, she returned to the Carson area where she taught country school. She even taught her brother Norman for a year. She did say he was we...[more]

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behaved. She met and married Harry Leroy Roberson on October 17, 1942 in Bellevue, NE. They moved to Fontanelle, IA where she was a teacher and taught there until her daughter Nova Lea was born in 1953. She was a full-time wife and mother living in the funeral home in Fontanelle and then Waterloo, IA. In 1959 Marjorie, Harry and Nova Lea moved to Avoca, IA. She returned to college and renewed her teaching certificate. She began teaching 4 th grade for AvoHa in 1965 and continued until her retirement in 1977. She was a very dedicated teacher, strict but fair. She enjoyed the friendships she made through teaching and golf. After her husband’s death, she moved to Lincoln in 2000 to be close to her daughter and granddaughters. She was very proud of her daughter Nova Lea and granddaughters Holly and Alyssa. Marjorie is preceded in death by her parents Caroll and Pauline Graham; husband, Harry Leroy Roberson; brother and sister-in-law Norman and Marg Graham. Marjorie is survived by her daughter Nova Lea Adams of Lincoln, NE; granddaughters Holly (Rob) Baynes and Alyssa (Zach) Mattison; great grandchildren Abe and Eli Baynes and Chloe and Scarlett Mattison; niece Laurie (Steve) Schulte) and nephew David (Sue) Graham; other relatives and a host of friends.