Roberta Showalter Kreider, 98, died Jan. 30, 2025. She was born April 3, 1926, to Oliver and Salome Showalter. She was the only daughter of five children who grew up in Yoder, Kan.

She married Harold Kreider in May 1946. Together they had three daughters, Linda, Evelyn and Bonita.

She taught school in Perryton, Texas, immediately upon graduating from high school. In her 30-plus years as a minister’s wife, she touched many lives. She taught her daughters the art of cooking, sewing, knitting, gardening and canning. She was a master at growing African violets and roses. She was a voracious reader of a wide variety of books, a love that lasted her whole life.

In the last 20 years of her life, she was active in promoting LGBT rights, editing three books of LGBT stories read worldwide and found in the book collection of Bishop Desmond Tutu.

She touched many lives and modeled a life of faith and service.

Surviving are two daughters, Evelyn (Fred Martin) and Bonita (Dean Nussbaum); five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Linda; two sons-in-law, Bill Perry and Nelson Martin; and a great-grandchild.