Roberta A. Delaney

Roberta Delaney
Roberta Delaney passed away from ALS on Friday January 10, 2014. Roberta loved traveling, music, reading, camping, good conversation, good food and wine, hiking, and being with friends and family. Roberta was a tenured professor at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizonawhere she taught reading. Roberta was a skilled, thoughtful and caring teacher who worked hard to help her students understand and love reading as she did. Roberta loved to hike the many canyons, desert trails and mountains of Arizona accompanied by friends, family and one of two of her dogs. She was instrumental in helping to create the Phoenix Mountain Preserves. She was passionate about giving voice to the powerless and unheard and gave generously of her time and resources for humane and just treatment for animals. In addition she worked tirelessly and generously for the environment, for civil liberties, and never hesitated to step up and do what she felt was right and necessary to make the world better. More than anything she was generous, kind and caring, always putting other's needs ahead of her own. She is survived by her husband Dave Delaney and her daughters Suzanne Buchanan, Sandra Harrington and Claudia Delaney, son-in laws, Steve Buchanan, Alan Harrington and Pete Rittinger and five grandchildren, Billy Buchanan, Danielle Buchanan, Christopher Buchanan, Alexis Harrington and Colin Harrington. A memorial service will be held at the family home in Phoenix, Arizona on February 8, 2014 starting at 2:00 pm.