Roberta "Mom Bert" North

Roberta "Mom Bert" North

Ankeny

Roberta "Mom Bert" Hope Dickens North, age 75, of Ankeny, Iowa passed away May 18, 2011 at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, A visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday May 22, at Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care 414 Lincoln Way with a 8 p.m. Vigil Service. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Monday, May 23, at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Ames.

Mom Bert was born February 20, 1936 in Grinnell, the daughter of Ray I. and Venus (Wassom) Dickens. She graduated from Valley High School in 1954 where she was Head Cheerleader and 1st Trombone in the Valley March Masters for four years. Mom Bert was a perfectionist, showing Championship 4H Hereford Cattle and Hampshire Sheep. She married Leland D. North Jan. 13, 1957 and the couple later divorced. She owned and operated the Dairy Queen in Jewell where she always had a listening ear and later became the house mother at Theta Delta Chi Fraternity where she taught etiquette, life skills and her boys became men. She received numerous awards and citations including the Superior Service Award at Iowa State University. While being Mom Bert, she also was an Administrative Assistant at ISU for Electrical and Computer Engineering and later for Iowa State 4H foundation.

Mom Bert is survived by Carol Lea (Lloyd) Luppes of Kamrar, Karen Kay North of Ankeny, grandchildren, Mark (Marie) Yeager, Ashley (Tim) Bentley, great grandchildren, Bristol, Axton Yeager, Victoria, Abigail, Jillian, Ayslyn and Logan Bentley, sisters, Donna Jean Hellums of Wichita, and Bernice Williams of Des Moines, and Leland D. North, and almost 300 Theta Delta Chi Fraternity Men.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters Marjorie Dickens, and Martha Dickens.

Online condolences may be sent to www.grandonfuneralandcremationcare.com.