John William (Bill) Roberts

Feb. 22, 1941 - July 13, 2024

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John William (Bill) Roberts passed away on July 13, 2024 in Portland, OR. He was born February 22, 1941 in Moscow, ID to John “Doc” and Pauline Roberts. Having the same first name as his well-known father, he was called Billy as a child and Bill throughout his educational years. After graduating college, he decided to go by John, but was still called Bill by family and old friends. In the fall of 1944, John’s father took a job teaching at Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. John spent his youth in Forest Grove, graduating from Pacific Grove High School in 1959 and Pacific University in 1963. He became a math teacher after graduation and it was at a teaching conference in San Francisco, CA, that he met Kathy Cummins. They married in 1966 and almost immediately headed off to Guam where they both taught math. They spent the next couple of years teaching as well as traveling the islands and countries of the Pacific Rim before landing in Hawaii where John completed his Masters in Education at the University of Hawaii. They subsequently moved to Yakima, WA and then Phoenix, AZ where John left teaching for an opportunity at GE. That led to a computer sales position at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

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