Roberta Chachere's Obituary
Roberta Chachere was born April 30 in DeWalt Texas in Fort Bend County to Leon and Lillie Veal Brown. Her parents had two children, Ethel Mae Brown and Roberta Brown. They later moved to Stafford Texas where she went to school K-12 graduating from Dulles High School in Sugar Land Texas, with a scholarship to Prairie View A&M University. She had three children, Sherry Brown-Yet and Sedrick Chachere and Rhonda Benard. After having all her children, she moved to Houston Texas in Harris County for better job opportunities. From there she started working in health care for Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital as a Telephone Operator and later became an Ultrasound Technician. Durning this time she had met a military solider whom she married Lawrence Chachere in 1968 and shortly after that he received orders overseas. To McPheeters Barracks Base in Bad Herzfeld Germany. They were stationed there for three years. In 1974 they received orders to Ft. Lewis, Washington. Shortly after moving to Washington State Roberta started working at Ft. Lewis Base Exchange and later got a job at Puget Sound Hospital as a ward secretary and became a Mental Health counselor. From there she had the opportunity to work for St. Joseph Medical Center as a Mental Health Counselor and later receiving a degree from the University of Southern California Department of Psychiatry in Geriatric Counselling in 1986. She worked at St Joseph Hospital until she retired in 2016. Roberta enjoyed traveling and bowling as a great pastime activity. Roberta has been a resident in Lakewood Washington since 1983. She loved her church St John Bosco where she had a whole host of friends. Roberta has four grandchildren Nicole Benard, Desirea Yet, Siobhan Chachere Nicholas Yet and two great grandchildren Jamiah Benard-Coleman Jamar Benard-Coleman. (AND A HOST OF HONORARY FAMILY & FRIENDS) Joyce Malone, Roy Lee Wright, Etta McCardell, Loretta Borner, Pete Blake, Georgia Schmidt, CarlaTrolia,Angie Pinches-Beck, Robert Taylor, Venita and many more.
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