Sharon Kay Roberts

Sharon Kay Roberts, 80, of Monteagle, TN passed away on November 4th, 2025, after battling ovarian cancer for more than a year. She was born in Richford, WI, but grew up in Oshkosh, WI. After graduating high school, she married an Iranian exchange student who attended UW-Oshkosh and moved with her new husband to Tehran, Iran. Her first marriage lasted just a short time, and her employer assisted her in obtaining a divorce - no easy feat for a female foreigner living in Iran in the late 1960s. She chose to stay in Tehran, where she met her second husband, Richard “Dick” Roberts, who originated from Cape Town, South Africa. They married in 1970 and would be together until his death 39 years later. Sharon and Dick moved to London, England in 1970, where Dick worked for British Petroleum. They later moved to Surbiton, Surrey, where they had two children: Nicholas, born in 1974 and Alexander, born in 1976. Sharon initially worked as a secretary and briefly as a model, but Sharon’s primary work and focus always revolved around her family as a devoted wife and mother. Dick even sent her off to the Cordon Bleu cooking school in London, where Sharon excelled as a cook and baker - skills that she later utilized while running a catering company with a close friend. From 1980 to 1984, Dick’s job brought the Roberts family to Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a period that the family remembers with great fondness. Upon Dick’s retirement in 1989, the family moved to Sharon’s hometown of Oshkosh, WI. This return allowed her to reconnect with her mother and siblings, after having lived abroad for half her life. The family’s time was often spent at relatives’ houses celebrating holidays, playing Yahtzee or cards, or going out bowling together. Sharon worked for over twenty years for Clarity Care, becoming the director of their Heritage Court Senior Living Community, which she managed until her retirement in 2015 at the age of 70. In 2015, Sharon moved to Monteagle, TN, where she lived close to her two sons and their families. She quickly made friends in the Laurel Lake/Ridgecliff Drive Community and through the Southern Tennessee Ladies’ Society, the EQB club, and other groups in our area. She always stated in amazement that she had met more close friends in the first few years she lived in Monteagle than she had in all the years she had lived in Wisconsin and abroad. She cherished these friendships and was particularly grateful to those who provided her so much comfort, support, and joy during this past year. Sharon always had a positive, forward-looking attitude despite suffering through some difficult periods in her life. Never one to complain, nor to sugar-coat her opinions, she was an excellent listener and conversationalist, and was always up for a challenge. Even following her first rounds of chemotherapy, she was determined to uphold her promise to make hundreds of cookies to hand out to the children of Monteagle at the yearly Christmas parade - and she delivered on that promise! She was a great mother and grandmother who provided so much support to her family in terms of advice, love, and lots and lots of amazing food. She will be greatly missed by all. Sharon is survived by her sons Nicholas Roberts (Mary Heath), Alexander Roberts (Cozue) and grandchildren William and Jack Roberts, all of Monteagle, TN, as well as her cousin Tom Wollangck (Eli) of Oshkosh, WI who she considered to be like a second brother. Sharon was predeceased by her mother, Elaine Whittaker (Stanley); her brother, Jim Reiter; and sisters, Mary Troxell (Orin) and Judy Whitewater (Don). A Celebration of Life for family and friends will be held at the Clifftops Lakehouse Club on November 23rd. Online condolences may be made at www.davesculbertsonfuneralhome.com Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home is honored to be assisting the family of Sharon Roberts.

Sharon Kay Roberts

February 8, 1945 - November 4, 2025