Carol Adair Roberts, 62, of Waldoboro, passed a way March 14 at Maine Medical Center in Portland, following a brief struggle with cancer.
She was born Sept. 23, 1944 in Daytona Beach, Fla., the eldest child of Capt. and Mrs. Carlton B. Roberts (USN ret.) of Healdsburg, Cal.
Born into a military family, she attended 16 different schools across the United States, before she graduated from high school. She is remembered as an excellent student wherever she studied. She graduated in 1965 from Vernon Court College in Newport, R.I., where she taught biology and sang in the choir.
After college, she moved with the family to California, where she worked for 25 years in data processing, initially as a programmer and later as a systems analyst.
On her 45th birthday, she loaded her household belongings into a Ryder truck and headed east to Maine.
Unlike the rest of the family, she thought of herself as an Easterner and said her heart belonged in Maine. Since then she had worked many jobs, very often as a caretaker of others.
She loved all forms of information. She was a voracious reader and collector of books and movies of all kinds. She loved to fastidiously draw and lay out plans for everything from quilts to beadwork to home decoration.
She is survived by her parents; brothers, Carlton Roberts of Anchorage, Alas., and Bruce Roberts of Kelseyville, Cal.; sister, Diane Current of Novato, Cal.; and five nieces and nephews.
She requested a memorial gathering in Waldoboro in the early summer. Those interested in attending should contact carobertsmemorial@hotmail.com. The date and time will be announced.
