Mark T. Roberts

Services for Mark T. Roberts, 53, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Lawrence Funeral Chapel. Inurnment will be later at Wamego City Cemetery.Mr. Roberts died Friday, Aug. 11, 2006, at his home.He was born Jan. 31, 1953, in Wamego, the son of Ted and Verna Elder Roberts. He graduated in 1971 from Chanute High School, where he was class president and valedictorian. He received degrees in environmental science, political science and civil engineering from Kansas University.Mr. Roberts worked as a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Post Office and was an environmental scientist for the Environmental Protection Agency and Ecology and Environment Inc. in the Kansas City area for many years. He served as treasurer for the Cordley School PTA.He married Patricia S. Roberts on June 19, 1993, in Lawrence. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include a daughter, Emily L. Roberts, of the home; his parents, Topeka; and a sister, Kathy Roberts, Lawrence.The family will receive friends following services Friday at the church.The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society, sent in care of the chapel.