Frances Jean Roberson, 909, of Temple, Texas died Saturday, December 22, 2012 in Waco, Texas. She was born September 4, 1922 at the Axtell Hospital in Newton, daughter of Claude E. and Grace Watson Adamson. She married Glenn David Roberson on September 19, 1952 in Bentonville, Arkansas. He died June 5, 1975.
In 1926 Jean along with here parents and paternal grandparents, Joe and Maggie Idella Adamson, moved to Pharr, Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. She graduated from high school in 1939, Edenburg Jr. College in 1941 and T.S.C.M. in Denton in 1943 with a degree in library science.
Jean was a librarian in Wichita at Hamilton and Horace Mann schools for six years; head librarian at the Parsons State Hospital for Children in Parsons from December 1955 until January 1, 1966 and then she was a catalog librarian in the Kansas State Historical Society Library from January 1967 until August 1979 when due to health reasons, she retired.
She moved to Temple, Texas in April 1985 to live in a more moderate climate for her health. She was a member of the Oak Park United Methodist Church in Temple, Friends of the Temple City Library, AARP, Progress Chapter No. 49 of the Eastern Star in Parsons, the Kansas Historical Society, Alumnae Assoc of TWU in Denton, along with the American Library Association.
Jean is survived by her foster daughther, Debra McGuire of Moody, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; infant brother, Claude Adamson, Jr.; grandparents, J.C. and Mary Alice Watson, Joe and Maggie Idella Adamson.
Graveside services will be December 29 at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton.
