Roberta Jean (Gilmore) James was born March 4, 1941, in Ada to Bob and Sylvia (Montgomery) Gilmore.  She passed away February 4, 2025, in Oklahoma City at the age of eighty-three.

Roberta grew up in Allen where she attended school graduating with the class of 1959.  She married Thomas James in 1959, raising three children together.  She enjoyed bingo, sewing and going to the casino. Roberta drove a school bus for Luther, Star Spencer, and Oklahoma City.  She made pillows and scarves for everyone she met. Roberta loved her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and her dogs. She always said “toddle loddle”, as her own way of expressing her love and to say goodbye.

Roberta was preceded in death by her parents, Bob and Sylvia Gilmore; husband of nearly 54 years, Thomas James; brother, Robert Gilmore, Jr. Survivors include her children, Karetha Davis and her husband Jimmy of Wellston, Mack James and his wife Jennifer of El Reno, Jessie Ealom of Wellston; six grandchildren, Becky (James), Julie, Bobby (Brandi), Kasey, Taylor (David), Bria; thirteen great-grandchildren, Cooper, Case, Chesney, Kobe, Calyn, Corbyn, Charli, Conley, Bailey, Cohlton, Lathan, Daylin, Serenity; one great-great-grandchild, Marlowe; many other family and friends.

A funeral will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 8, 2025, in the First Baptist Church of Wellston with interment following in the Wellston Cemetery.  Arrangements are under the direction of Lehman Funeral Home of Wellston.