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Note: !Born 25 November 1893 on Butz farm near Cedar Creek in So. Whitehall Twp. !Died 24 December 1981 in Allentown Hospital.
OBITUARY From the Allentown Morning Call , Saturday, December 26, 1981
MRS. BLANCHE S. ROBERTS
Mrs. Blanche S. Roberts, 89, of Cedarbrook, Allentown R. 2, died Thursday in the Allentown and Sacred Heart Hospital Center. She was the widow of Walter A. Roberts. She was a social worker at Cedarbrook and the Good Shepherd Home, Allentown, for many years before retiring in 1961. Born in Allentown, she was a daughter of the late Henry H. and Adlai (Butz) Stephens.
She was a member of St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Allentown.
Surviving are four daughters, Susan, wife of Daniel Wolfe of Indialantic, Fla., Julia, wife of Louis Guttman of Rochester, NY, Mrs. Mary Jane Kohn of St. Louis, Mo., and Louise, wife of Alex Hrizuk of Whatelhall Township, three sons, John A. of Doylestown, and James and David, both of Allentown, 15 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandchild.
Services will be at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in the church. A calling hour will procede the services. The Bachman Funeral Home, 1030 Walnut St., Allentown is in charge of arrangements.
FROM THE CEDARBROOK HOME NEWSLETTER DATED 1977
We found another member of the Cedarbrook "Alumnae" in the person of Blanche Roberts, now a resident of C-3. Mrs. Roberts worked here as Activities Coordinator in the days before there was even an occuppational theraphy department.
Her hobby was her Inner-Mission work for the Lutheran Church and part of her volunteer service was coming to Cedarbrook regularly with a group of fellow church workers. Mr. Titlow, then administrator, was so impressed with their work that he asked Mrs. Roberts to join the staff and recruit the assistance of more such volunteer groups. She scouted churches and organizations and did a grerat job. She stayed two years.
The farm on which Blanche grew up is now the campus of Muhlenberg College. Portions of the land not used for the school were turned over to the City of Allentown as part of Cedar Parkway. In fact, the "bake oven", still standing, was in the back of the home in which Blanche was born on November 25, 1893.
Her husband, Walter A Roberts, was an automotive equipment salesman whose work had him travelling all over the Atlantic seaboard. During World War II his travels stopped, however, because the army bought everyting his company could make for their own autos, trucks and tanks.
The Roberts had thirteen children of whom seven ae still living. Now there are fifteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren. With all her big family, Mrs. Roberts always managed to take care of a large garden and all her flowers.
When the children were grown it was the need to keep busy that led her into her church volunteer work and eventually to Cedarbrook.
Mrs. Roberts' eyesight has been gone completely for about five years but she manages to do things for herself quite well. You long-time residents and staff members who remember her might like to pay a visit to rehash old times. She enjoys conversation.
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