Date of birth January 21, 1936. Date of death November 20, 2020.
Roberta was born in Durango, Colorado to James Robert Pierson and Kathleen Cullhane Pierson. She attended the same one room school that her mother and grandmother attended near Durango, Colorado until the family moved to Bayfield, Colorado in 1947. Her father was a beekeeper and her mother worked for many years in a Native American craft store and that influenced Robertaâs love for Native American Jewelry. Roberta graduated from Bayfield High School in 1953 and entered nursing school at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix and completed her RN degree in 1957 where she met her husband, Ron Newman. On May 1, 1963 she and Ron were married in Colorado. Their son, Patrick was born in 1964. Roberta and Ron lived in several places before settling in New Braunfels in 1990. She was preceded in death by her husband Ron in 2000 and her brother Ray in 2018. After Ronâs passing, she moved to Vista Village Retirement Communi