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Frances Helena <I>Hunter</I> Roberts

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Frances Helena Hunter Roberts

Birth
Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois, USA
Death
Oct 1977 (aged 78)
Maywood, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.8694764, Longitude: -87.8315717
Plot
Section 57, lot 8
Memorial ID
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Frances H. Roberts
Frances (Hunter) Roberts, 80, of N. Grove Av., well-known concert singer in an earlier day, died Sunday at the Baptist Retirement Home in Maywood.
Mrs. Roberts was graduated from Northwestern University and studied at Paris and Berlin music schools. A soprano, her concert at the Gooodman Memorial Theatre, Chicago, won plaudits from music critics, lay and professional.
She was born in Kankakee, daughter of a distinguished judge, and attended school there.
Mrs. Roberts was the wife of Elmer C., who with his father, the late Evan (sic), were architects and one of their more noted structures was the First Baptist Church Community Center.
Memorial services are being arranged by the Dreschsler-Brown Funeral Home and will take place at the chapel of First Baptist Church, which her husband designed.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park IL), 19 Oct 1977, pg. 70
Frances H. Roberts
Frances (Hunter) Roberts, 80, of N. Grove Av., well-known concert singer in an earlier day, died Sunday at the Baptist Retirement Home in Maywood.
Mrs. Roberts was graduated from Northwestern University and studied at Paris and Berlin music schools. A soprano, her concert at the Gooodman Memorial Theatre, Chicago, won plaudits from music critics, lay and professional.
She was born in Kankakee, daughter of a distinguished judge, and attended school there.
Mrs. Roberts was the wife of Elmer C., who with his father, the late Evan (sic), were architects and one of their more noted structures was the First Baptist Church Community Center.
Memorial services are being arranged by the Dreschsler-Brown Funeral Home and will take place at the chapel of First Baptist Church, which her husband designed.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park IL), 19 Oct 1977, pg. 70


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