Rosalie Graham Roberts

Rosalie Graham Roberts, age 88, of Mount Ida, passed away on Monday, May 27, 2019, at her home surrounded by family. She was born on December 23, 1930, in Mount Ida, the daughter of Oscar and Lela Brown Graham. She was the youngest of six children. In 1949, she married William Paul Roberts. She graduated from Mount Ida High School, where she was a drum majorette and member of the State Champion Basketball team. Through the years, Rosalie worked as a telephone operator, a law clerk, and at Haps Grocery, but the roles she loved best were those of being a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. With her kindness, integrity, honesty and humility, she was a shining example of a life well lived. Rosalie was a skilled seamstress, avid reader, quilter and a wonderful cook. She had a quick wit and enjoyed playing card and board games with her children and grandchildren, all of whom, thought it was quite a feat if they ever beat her at those games. During the 70 years she and Paul were married they made numerous friends and memories while touring the country on their Honda Gold Wing. She was a past member of the Christian Motorcycle Association and the Mount Ida Ladies Bowling team. Rosalie loved the Lord and was a member of the Mount Ida First Baptist Church, where she served in various roles throughout the years. She truly enjoyed attending the Ladies Sunday School class. She is survived by her loving husband, Paul Roberts of Mount Ida; her four daughters and their husbands, Kaye and John Larsen of Watersmeet, Michigan, Jeanne and Bruce Short of Nashville, Arkansas, Janice and Doug Miller of Pearcy and Paula and Bill Cole of Lake Quivira, Kansas; nine grandchildren and their spouses, Katie Larsen, John Paul and Andrea Larsen, Karrie and John Jamison, Molly and Lance Lindow, Callie and Drew Mills, Casey and Jimmy Morris, Ben and Alesha Miller, Zach and Carly Burton and Alex Burton; twenty-four great-grandchildren, Noah, Ray Lee, Liam, Duncan, Olivia, Emily, Isabel, Isaac, Owen, Ainsley, Emmett, Gunnar, Rafe, Tanner, Grace Charity, Abigail, Samuel, Mose, Claira, Wyatt, Allie, Jacey, Josie and Reed; and her sister, Marguerite McCaslin. Services will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, May 31, 2019, in the Mount Ida First Baptist Church with Larry Carr officiating. Interment will be in the Mount Ida Cemetery under the direction of Davis-Smith Funeral Home, Glenwood. Pallbearers will be John Paul Larsen, Zach Burton, Alex Burton, Ben Miller, Gunnar Lindow and Isaac Jamison. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Rosalies memory to the Gideons International, P.O. Box 1087, Mount Ida, AR, 71957. The family extends a special thank you to her wonderful in-home caregivers, her valued neighbor Rich Pantel and the nurses of Arkansas Hospice. Guest registry is at www.davis-smith.com.