Michael DeWitt Roberts Reno - Michael DeWitt Roberts, 74, of Reno, Nevada, passed away at Renown Hospital of a heart attack on April 4, 2022. Mike graduated from Reno High School in 1966. At that time, he started his professional baseball career playing in the minor leagues for the Dodgers. Due to an injury, he went into banking and eventually joined Snap-On Tools as an Industrial Representative, a successful career from which he retired around 2017. Mike was always a hard worker. He worked from the age of ten to help his mother, Rhoda Roberts. He worked two jobs until he was fifty to make sure he could take care of his family. He married Linda Roberts in 1984 which led to the best 30 years of his life. Mike cherished his family and friends, and he would do anything he could to take care of them. You knew he would always "be there for you," ready to help in a crisis, or in a hundred simple gestures of kindness, like lending a hand to friends painting their house, or surprising his sister in NY with an air conditioner when her building's broke down during a heatwave. Mike enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. He enjoyed golf, traveling, and good conversations. Anyone he met he would strike up a conversation with and genuinely take an interest in them. He was never alone in life as he had the ability to make a friend out of everyone he met. Warm, gregarious, generous, at 6ft. 2 (He would insist, 6ft. 4!), Mike was a bigger-than-life figure in any room. But especially at a piano bar, where his rich tenor brought not just a big voice, but his bigger-than-life spirit to the evening. Mike is survived by his sister Randy Rosen. His son Jay (and Diana) Egami and their daughter Zaira. His son Lewis (and Jayna) Roberts and their son Koa, and his dear partner, Maddy Martin. Mike loved his sons more than anything until he had grandchildren. Then his grandchildren meant the world to him.
Bruce Templeton
Michael DeWitt Roberts Reno - Michael DeWitt Roberts, 74, of Reno, Nevada, passed away at Renown Hospital of a heart attack on April 4, 2022. Mike graduated from Reno High School in 1966. At that time, he started his professional baseball career playing in the minor leagues for the Dodgers. Due to an injury, he went into banking and eventually joined Snap-On Tools as an Industrial Representative, a successful career from which he retired around 2017. Mike was always a hard worker. He worked from the age of ten to help his mother, Rhoda Roberts. He worked two jobs until he was fifty to make sure he could take care of his family. He married Linda Roberts in 1984 which led to the best 30 years of his life. Mike cherished his family and friends, and he would do anything he could to take care of them. You knew he would always "be there for you," ready to help in a crisis, or in a hundred simple gestures of kindness, like lending a hand to friends painting their house, or surprising his sister in NY with an air conditioner when her building's broke down during a heatwave. Mike enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. He enjoyed golf, traveling, and good conversations. Anyone he met he would strike up a conversation with and genuinely take an interest in them. He was never alone in life as he had the ability to make a friend out of everyone he met. Warm, gregarious, generous, at 6ft. 2 (He would insist, 6ft. 4!), Mike was a bigger-than-life figure in any room. But especially at a piano bar, where his rich tenor brought not just a big voice, but his bigger-than-life spirit to the evening. Mike is survived by his sister Randy Rosen. His son Jay (and Diana) Egami and their daughter Zaira. His son Lewis (and Jayna) Roberts and their son Koa, and his dear partner, Maddy Martin. Mike loved his sons more than anything until he had grandchildren. Then his grandchildren meant the world to him.
- Reno Gazette-Journal, 05/05/2022