MySource:Rebekah Carlisle/Warner, Roberta Carlisle - Obit

ROBERTA MARGARET WARNER, age 99, died Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Meadows Manor East Nursing Home in Terre Haute, Ind. She was born in her parent's home overlooking the old Erie Canal (Lock #16), State Route 16 (now #416) and the Tuscarawas River (south of New Philadelphia) on Jan. 31, 1914. She was next to the youngest of nine children of Robert Donnelson Carlisle, Jr., and Elizabeth Stoeklin Carlisle. The Robert Donnelson Carlisle, Sr. family emigrated from Dunbartenshire, Scotland (near Glasgow) in the late 19th Century. At the time of her death, she was the oldest living graduate of Midvale High School, having graduated in May, 1931. Roberta was predeceased by all of her loveable siblings as well as by her faithful and treasured lifelong campanion, Edward Charles Warner (pictured her with her on their 40th wedding anniversary) who died of pancreatic cancer on July 17, 1983. Roberta and Edward were married on Christmas morning, 1934, in the living room of her aunt and uncle with her uncle, John D. Carlisle, performing the ceremony. They celebrated doubly every Christmas morning....

In the Tuscarawas County, Ohio area Roberta Warner is survived by dozens of nieces and nephews. She will be laid to rest beside her husband in East Avenue Cemetery where the overwhelming number of the lifelong relatives and friends are also buried.

Roberta was a "Rosie the Riveter" during World War II taking a man's place in a clay tile factory of the Universal Sewer Pipe Plant No. 2 while her husband spent two years in Germany, April 1944 to 1946. She worked both as a waitress and a cook in Bonvechio's Tavern and Restaurant in Wainwright. She worked seasonally dressing poultry at Watson's Hatchery and Dressing Plant on the Southside. The last decade of her employment was as a check out cashier at Beaber's IGA on the Southside of the corner of Commercial and Broadway Avenues where she was able to see so many of her friends and relatives coming and going regularly.

Roberta was known, loved and respected as a hard worker, a spotless housekeeper and homemaker, an excellent cook (especially with double-crust fruit pies!), a generous and sharing neighbor, and an ambitious gardener....

Roberta and her husband were lifelong members of the Community of Christ Church, located on New Philadelphia's Southside....