Roberta Greene Hall

1926 - 2003

Roberta Greene Hall, a St. Augustine native and descendent of Revolutionary War officers, Gen. Nathaniel Greene and Maj. John Erwin, passed away peacefully of a heart attack at home June 8, 2003 while in the care of her cousin, Col. Lynnette Kennison, a nurse practitioner at the Mayo Clinic, and Lynnette's husband, Stan Gutshall.

She was born Nov. 12, 1926, at the Florida East Coast Railway Hospital to Alta Irwin Greene, a college professor and Colonial Dame who was known locally for her church work and civil rights activism, and Robert Greene, a real estate developer of Daytona Beach.

During the war years, Roberta attended the University of Miami, where she met and married Sebastian Sisti of New York City. She then worked for Good Housekeeping in New York. In the 1950s she owned the only telephone answering service in St. Augustine. She was also the society editor of The St. Augustine Record and a member of the Ponce de Leon Country Club and Memorial Presbyterian Church.

In 1961, she married Rahe Gainous and moved to Atlanta, where she worked for the Centers for Disease Control as a medical records librarian and also served as a consultant to developing countries. Roberta continued to maintain her home at 610 Shore Drive for her entire life, returning from Atlanta permanently in the 1980s.

Everyone is welcome to attend the memorial service at Memorial Presbyterian at 2 p.m., Sunday, June 15, which will be conducted by Dr. John Hunter. Her ashes will be interred along the ashes of her son, Robert Anthony Sisti, who predeceased her in May 2001.

She is survived by her cousin William (Bill) D. Woods, an attorney of Tampa, his daughter Angel Wood Hauch of Daytona Beach, her cousin Lynnette Kennison, a colonel in the Florida National Guard, her daughter and son-in-law, Donnielle Georgiana Eloise Sisti and John A. Hirshleifer, M.D., master of public health, of California, and her three granddaughters, Theresa L. Fronske of Los Angeles, who works at Fox TV, Joan A. Fronske of San Francisco, who works for Sybase, Inc. and Sarojini Hirshleifer, a student at University of California, Berkeley.

Craig Funeral Home and Crematory are in charge of arrangements.

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