Atchison Daily Globe, Wednesday, January 7, 1959.

Miss Maude Roberts Found Dead In Home

Funeral arrangements for Miss Maude Roberts, 82, who was found dead yesterday at her home, 1317 South Fourth, await word from a nephew, William R. Selby of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., and other nephews and nieces. The Stanton mortuary is in charge.

Harold Dyer, coroner, said Miss Roberts probably had been dead since Sunday. She had apparently fallen in a hallway between her living room and kitchen due to a heart attack. She had been under treatment for a heart ailment, Dyer said.

Miss Roberts was found by police officers who responded to a call from Mrs. Millard Meyer, 1019 North Fourth, who had been calling on Miss Roberts on Tuesdays and Fridays, buying her groceries and taking her down town in her car occasionally. Mrs. Meyer and Miss Roberts had been friends about ten years. Millard Meyer is a letter carrier.

When Mrs. Meyer found the door locked at Miss Roberts' home on her regular call yesterday, she went across the street to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wyatt, 1320 South Fourth. She and Mrs. Wyatt took a ladder to look through a window into Miss Roberts' second floor apartment, where she resided alone.

They did not see her through the window and called police. Officers climbed the ladder and entered through the window. A gas stove was burning in the living room, but the kitchen and hall were cold. The electric lights were off. Coroner Dyer said death was due to natural causes.

Miss Roberts was born June 3, 1876, in Doniphan county, a daughter of P. O. and Martha Jane Clem Roberts. Later the family lived several years in western Kansas. She was employed in the Atchison Boston store many years and had a position for a long time in an Oklahoma City department store.

Returning to Atchison, she sold cosmetics and ladies wear from house to house until a few years ago. She was a member of the First Christian church.

She was employed in The Globe circulation department several years, working with the late Bert Baumener in surrounding towns.

Besides the Boston store, she had worked in the Donald Brothers dry good store and in stores at Horton, Denver, Colo., and St. Joe.

She was a sister of Mrs. Valeria Pearl Selby, widow of W. W. Selby, who died at her home, 1009 Parallel, April 8, 1857.

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