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Last Name: Roberts

First Name : Paul

Middle Name: Marceau

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Comments: Paul Marceau Roberts (Nee: ) | | | Comments: I would like to share a story with you, along with two family photos. The very old black and white photo is a picture of the Valtille of Lille, France. Their first names are unknown. We have an old family legend about the Valtilles, who are also related to the Bossu family of Lille, France. The story goes that a newspaper or a magazine ran an advertisement that if a Valtille could provide them information on where the Valtille name came from, that this Valtille would win an inheritance from the noble line of Valtilles. The secret was that the Valtilles originated from England and were known as the Waltilles and changed their name to Valtille for unknown reasons. This of course is a family legend that has been passed down through generations. The Valtilles through marriage are supposed to have two relatives (a husband and wife) that were on the doomed fated Titanic. The story goes that the woman refused to take off her money belt when she hit the water and the husband tried desperately to have her take off the money belt. She refused and drowned. The husband lived. The Valtilles finally moved to Oklahoma and that is where my grandmother Sophie Roberts comes in. Sophie Roberts was originally a "Valtille". She was known in Lehigh, Oklahoma as the "angry French woman", for reasons unknown to me. She moved into a home in Lehigh, Oklahoma that was built on the blood money of a former sheriff who killed a man for his money and built the home that Sophie Roberts moved into with her husband, my grandfather Emile Roberts. Sophie had 2 sons, Paul Marceau Roberts and George Roberts. Paul Marceau Roberts is my father. Her daughter was Yvonne (Leaird) Roberts. The second picture is of my father Paul Marceau Roberts who became a State government tax investigator/auditor and later a tax administrator II for the government. Paul Marceau Roberts investigated cases that involved the Church of Scientology and a corporation run by the former gangster Mickey Cohen. On these cases, my father worked side-by-side with the IRS. Paul Marceau Roberts gained his pilot's license and would fly small Cessna airplanes for fun and would eventually travel around the world on lavish vacations to exotic places from Portugal to Gibraltar and of course France. He served in the Army, while the Korean War was going on and served as a lineman for a Signal Battalion in Korea. His wife, my mother featured in the second picture is Rosemarie Roberts, formerly known as Rosita Causing. Rosemarie Roberts was a Rosie the Riveteer in WWII and as a teenager labored in grape fields in Imperial Valley. Rosemarie Roberts favorite places to vacation was only Mexico and Hawaii. My mother was of Filipino, Chinese and Mexican descent and families that were connected to her were Soyo, Tanzo, Guyo, Villalobos, Ayala, Rodriguez, Guitterrez, Lafayette. My mother died in 1987 of breast cancer. The small boy in the second picture is me

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Paul Roberts
Rosemarie Roberts

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