Helen Amelia Roberts, age 80, died on Nov. 11, 2003, at Swedish Hospital. She was 80 years old.

She was born June 24, 1923, in Birmingham, Ala., to Charles H. and Theresa A. Roberts.

She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1940 and worked as a Bell Telephone operator and flight line inspector for Bechtel McCone and Parsons before entering the Navy in 1943. She served as a pharmacist’s mate until her discharge in 1946.

She met and married her first husband Wendall Stocks in 1946 and moved to the Pacific Northwest. She worked as a draftsman for Boeing Aircraft and freelanced as a graphic artist and illustrator.

In 1950, the first of her children was born, and she became a full-time mother. The family moved to Vashon in 1962.

In 1965 she was employed by the Vashon School District as a playground supervisor, bus driver and finally as a janitor until her retirement in 1985.

In 1981 she met and married “the love of her life” George Remmert, who died in 1994.

She spent her last years traveling and donating much of her time to the St. John Vianney Church and community.

Survivors include sisters Elizabeth Roberts and Mary Claire Lovoy of Birmingham, Ala. and brother Jerome Roberts of Mobile, Ala., as well as her four children, Mike Stocks of Los Angeles, Jim Stocks of Vashon, Susan Hansen of Puyallup and Ann Starr of Vashon, and seven grandchildren.

Services were Nov. 15 at St. John Vianney Catholic Church.

Memorials may be sent to the Vashon Community Food Bank, P.O. Box 1205, Vashon, Wash. 98070 or Nativity House, P.O. Box 1818, Tacoma, Wash. 98401.