A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, at St. Eugene’s Catholic Church. Interment will follow in Resurrection Cemetery. The Rev. Joe Jacobi, will officiate.
Roberta was born Nov. 3, 1922, in Edmond, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H.J. Lynch. She graduated from John Carroll Catholic High School in Oklahoma City in 1939.
She worked for Mid Continent News and A-K News. She was also a homemaker throughout her lifetime. She married John McCormick on July 10, 1954, in Oklahoma City and they were married for 34 years before his death in August of 1988. She and her husband were one of the founding families of St. Eugene’s Church in 1958. She was a member of the St. Rose Guild of the church.
She attended school at Deer Creek and Bethany before moving to Oklahoma City where she completed grade school and high school at John Carroll.
She loved family vacations, and listening and dancing to Big Band music.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sons, John Kevin and infant son Timmy, her parents, four sisters, Mary, Cecilia, Barbara and Bonnie and a brother, Harold, Jr.
She is survived by her son Mike and his wife Pat of Shawnee; a daughter Maureen Giese and her husband Randy of Oklahoma City; a brother, Dr. Edward I. Lynch, Oklahoma City; a sister, Gerrie Snare, Oklahoma City; a brother-in-law, H.J. Mullman, Irving, Texas; two sisters-in-law, Bernadine Lynch, Oklahoma City and Rita McCormick, Oklahoma City; grandchildren, Meghan McCormick, Norman; Kara Giese and Audie Giese, and Jackie McCormick, Oklahoma City; a number of nieces, nephews and cousins.
Memorials may be made to Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
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