ROBERSON, Mavis E.

The Payson Roundup, Payson, Arizona, Friday, June 12, 2015 Mavis “Peterson” E. Roberson April 15, 1928 - June 9, 2015 Mavis E. (Peterson) Roberson, 87, of Payson, passed into eternity at home with family by her side, June 9, 2015. She was born April 15, 1928 in Forest City, Iowa to Elmer and Dora Peterson. Mavis attended a one-room school house in rural Iowa. She helped on the family farm, caring for hundreds of chickens while her father and older brothers farmed fields behind horses. Mavis married Harold Roberson July 14, 1946, at Asbury Methodist Church in Lake Mills, Iowa. They had four sons born in Iowa. They moved to Phoenix in 1955 and had their fifth son. In 1970, Mavis began a career working in the mailroom with United States Fidelity and Guarantee Insurance Company in Phoenix and by retirement worked her way up to commercial lines supervisor. She was very proud of her Employee of the Year award in an office of hundreds of employees. In December 1993, after retiring, Mavis and Harold moved to Payson. Survivors include five sons, Larry and his wife, Carol, of Phoenix, Ariz., David of Star Valley, Ariz., Keith and his wife, Jacque, of Deer Creek, Ariz., Steve and his wife, Bobbie, of Kentucky and Randy and his wife, Diane, of Payson; 7 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Elmer and Dora, and four brothers, Marvin, Ernest, Dale and Elwood Peterson. Services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 13 at Mount Cross Lutheran Church, 601 E. Highway 260 in Payson, Ariz. Interment will be at Mountain Meadows Memorial Park in Round Valley with a reception following at Messinger Funeral Home’s community room, 901 S. Westerly Road, Payson. Memorial gifts may be made to Mount Cross Lutheran Church or Hospice Compassus of Payson. Arrangements were handled by Messinger Payson Funeral Home.