Roberta (Bobbie) Blanc, mother, musician, Anthropologist, and world traveler, died at the age of 88 on Saturday March 19, 2022 at Swedish Hospital in Englewood, Colorado after suffering a stroke earlier in the week. She passed peacefully surrounded by loved ones.

Bobbie was born Roberta Carolyn Roe in 1933 in Denver Colorado to parents Ruth Roe Moorhead and Edward Roe as 1 of 5 siblings. She graduated from East High School in Denver and subsequently attended Colorado State University where she was active in the Tri Delta sorority.   In 1952 she married Air Force Sergeant Warren Blanc of Staten Island, New York. While pregnant with her first son, Bobbie joined Warren in NewFoundland Canada where Warren was stationed and where she gave birth to Glenn.  After Warren's discharge from the Air Force the family made their home in Denver where sons Scott, Chris and Warren (Chip) were born.

While caring for her growing family, Bobbie continued to pursue her passions for history, music and travel.  After the boys were grown, she resumed her studies at Metropolitan State College and graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology with a minor in Music.  She spent many hours volunteering on archeological digs, and working behind the scenes at the Denver Historical Society, the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

She also enjoyed a lifelong love of music, first taking up the string bass, and later the recorder. She was a member of the American Recorder Society and played weekly with her local recorder group "Artifacts".  In addition, she sang in the choir at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church and appeared in the chorus in many Gilbert and Sullivan productions with Denver's Empire Lyric Players.

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church was Bobbie's lifelong spiritual home, beginning as a young girl when her family lived just a few blocks away.  Over decades, Bobbie, Warren and all the children served as volunteers to this beloved community.   In 2011 Bobbie completed a two year program of Theological Education through the University of the South School of Theology.

As a participant in Elderhostel, later renamed Road Scholars, Bobbie discovered new outlets for learning and travel.  In addition, she participated regularly in historic walking tours across the British Isles, led by a dear friend.

Roberta is survived by her four boys, their spouses and eight grandchildren.  She was predeceased by her husband Warren in 1994.

A memorial service in Bobbie's honor will be held at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 1280 Vine St in Denver on her birthday June 6, 2022 at 10:00 AM. In lieu of flowers Please send donations to St. Barnabas in her name.