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"Roberta Bosworth Thomas Mathews died on May 6, 2014 at St. Mary of the Woods, a senior living center in Avon where she had been living since August, 2013. Mrs. Mathews was 101.  Mrs. Mathews was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1912. Her father, who worked for the General Electric Company, was transferred frequently when Mrs. Mathews was a child, and her family ultimately settled in Lakewood, Ohio, where she graduated from Lakewood High School in 1930. She attended Baldwin Wallace College, in Berea, Ohio, graduating in 1936, and while at Baldwin Wallace, was elected May Queen, an event that was featured on the front page of the Cleveland Press in May 1935.  After college, Mrs. Mathews taught Home Economics and English in a high school in southern Ohio until her marriage to Roy V. Thomas in 1939. After Mr. Thomas&#39; death in 1957, Mathews worked for several years for the Lakewood Public Schools, and later taught at Carl Shuler Junior High in Cleveland until her retirement in 1976. Mrs. Mathews married Robert H. Mathews in 1966 (Mr. Mathews died in 1998) and lived for the next 48 years in the Bay Village and Rocky River area. Mrs. Mathews was a long-time member of Bay Presbyterian Church and the Martha Devotion Huntington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.Mrs. Mathews is the loving mother of Stephan Thomas, Pamela Thomas, Gail Mathews Negilski (David), Herbert Thomas (Shirley), Gregory Mathews and Robert Thomas (Katherine); loving grandmother of 12 and great-grandmother of 12; great-great grandmother of 5. Memorials may be forwarded to Bay Presbyterian Church, 25415 Lake Rd., Bay Village, OH 44145. Memorial Service will be at Bay Presbyterian Church on Friday, May 9, at 11:00am.Memorial Service       Friday, May 9, 2014  Starts at 11:00pm (Eastern time)          Bay Presbyterian Church  25415 Lake Rd, Bay Village, OH 44140"
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