Jewel Marie Roberts

Jewel M. Roberts, 79, died of natural causes March 15, 2023, at Bingham Memorial Hospital. She was born February 28, 1944, in Pocatello, Idaho, the daughter of Edward and Hazel (Dillard) Kinney.

Jewel graduated from Pocatello High School with the class of 1962. During high school, she played basketball and other sports and was awarded Best Female Athlete her senior year. She enjoyed camping, watching the Kansas City Chiefs, Idaho State home football games, having lunch with her friends and playing cards with her family.

She was kind, fun, lovable and funny. She was fun to tease, very loving, and very stubborn!

She married her first husband, Jack Felty, September 13, 1963, and had a daughter, Lisa. She married her second husband, Dillard Roberts, June 15, 1968, and had three daughters and a son, Mary, Sherry, Kathy and William.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, William Roberts, brother James Kinney, mother Hazel Kinney, sister Edna Lewis and son-in-law Randy Smith.

She is survived by her four daughters: Lisa Smith, Mary D’Antuono, Sherry Buffaloe and Kathy Whitnah; eleven grandchildren: Teresa, Nick, John, Eric, Whitney, Alex, Nathan, Andrew, Kara, Kurt and Darren; six great grandchildren: Kaelan, Camden, Isaac, Elijah, Brooklyn and Terah. She is also survived by her two sisters: Hazel Miller and Betty Benson; and her son-in-law, Marc D’Antuono.

A memorial of remembrance will be held on March 22, 2023, from 4pm-7pm at the Veterans Memorial building, 300 N. Johnson Ave. Pocatello.

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