Roberta Williams Sloan

Independent, creative, feisty, smart, one-of a kind. Roberta Williams Sloan was an Indian at heart, riding horses and proud of her pioneering roots. She took tremendous pleasure in the simple things of life. She was most connected to nature and loved collecting rocks, among other things! Outgoing and friendly, her smile and spunky spirit were contagious, and always loved adventures. Born in 1933 in the house her Grandparents homesteaded, she experienced a lot of change in her world, including electricity, indoor plumbing, refrigeration, and the telephone. She loved to tell stories of the olden days, surviving the depression and dust bowl, and helping her family on the farm. Saturday mornings she would churn butter in front of the battery powered radio and listen to stories. She loved driving the tractor and would day dream about the outfits she was going to sew from reusable chicken feed sacks. Roberta graduated from a small rural school in Beyers, Kansas. As a young woman, she was a school bus driver and worked at the lumber yard. She went on to Secretarial school in Kansas City, while working as an au pair, and returned to Pratt where she met her husband, who was serving in the Air Force as a Sargent. She moved to Wisconsin and built her family. Roberta is proceeded in death by her husbands, Eugene Kazmierski and David Sloan. She is survived by her three children, Greg (Pam) Kazmierski, Daniel (Tammy) Kazmierski and Sheri Kazmierski, her brother, Charles Williams, her granddaughter Michelle (Troy) Duke, and great granddaughter Noel Buscher. As a longtime supporter of Robert Redford’s conservation foundation, contributions can be made to the National Resources Defense Council.