{"id":14245,"date":"2024-03-22T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:50:04","slug":"karen-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/karen-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Karen Kay Roberts, age 81, passed away Wednesday morning, March 20, 2024, at River Terrace Retirement Community following an extended illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karen was born in Wells County on April 20, 1942, to Merlin K. and Alice Elene (Martin) Bender, both parents preceded her in death. Karen married L. Kay Roberts at St. Mark\u2019s Lutheran Church in Uniondale on July 23, 1960, he preceded her in death on March 28, 2013.  She was a 1960 graduate of Rock Creek High School and a member of Murray Missionary Church and Red Hatters Club. Karen was a homemaker and retired after 25 years from Rock Creek and Northern Wells Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She enjoyed golf trips and gardening. Karen became a World Traveler, traveling to Alaska, Africa, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Cozumel, Ireland, UK, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France.  Karen enjoyed spending winters in Orange Beach with family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survivors include three children; Kerry (Laura) Roberts of Bluffton, Kirk (Suzy) Roberts of Ossian and Kelli (Brian) Reifel of Westfield, IN, nine grandchildren and four grt. grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to her parents and husband of 52 years, she was preceded in death by a brother; Gerry Bender and a sister; Regina Daugherty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitation will be Monday, March 25, 2024, from 2:00 until 7:00 PM, at Goodwin \u2013 Cale & Harnish Memorial Chapel in Bluffton.  Services will be held on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 10:30 AM, at Murray Missionary Church, with visitation one hour prior to the service at the church.  Pastor Mike Gilbert will officiate.  Burial will follow at Markle Cemetery, Markle, IN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memorials can be made in Karen\u2019s memory to Stillwater Hospice of Ft. Wayne, IN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karen Kay Roberts, age 81, passed away Wednesday morning, March 20, 2024, at River Terrace Retirement Community following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-14245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}