Roberta H. Wight

Lunch and fellowship at 12:30 P.M. (prior to the memorial service) at the Henderson Community Center.

Roberta was born in Mt. Ayr, Iowa on March 6, 1924 to Harry Dale and Avis Rush Hetzel. She passed away peacefully on March 21, 2004 at the Medi Home of Prairie Grove after a residency of but three days. This followed an illness of nearly a month during which she was hospitalized at Baxter County Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. She had resided in Fayetteville for the past three years after having lived at Holiday Island since 1979.

Roberta received her elementary and high school education in the Mount Ayr schools and graduated in the class of 1941. She then attended business school in Des Moines. Prior to her marriage to Robert Wight on November 13, 1955, she worked at various secretarial positions including a stint for GM in Detroit during World War II.

She was a member of Grace Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville. She had served as State Commander of Arkansas Diamond Chapter Wives of US Submarine Veterans of WWII.

Surviving are her husband, Robert Wight of the home; two sons, Jay Wight of Hoffman Estates, IL and Chris Wight and his wife, Linda of Oak Park, IL. Also she leaves granddaughters Katie,
Holly, Rebecca and Anna, and grandsons, Conrad and Nolan.