LARRY ROBERTS 1961 - 1985 STATION AGENT, CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR, ASSISTANT STATION MANAGER, STATION MANAGER MOT SNY COS STL DEN GUP PHX Jake Lamkins To Larry Roberts Hi Larry, I saw your eddress in the MDW email from Walt Hatfield. Do you know about the FL newsletter and the FL online club? I'll send you an invite to the FL Club which has 616 members. Send me your postal address and I'll get a newsletter off to you. Did you & I work together in STL back in the late 60s? Or was it LAW? (12/24/05) LARRY G ROBERTS 64 TEMPE AZ Intelius.com (12/24/05) Larry Roberts Hi Jake, Sorry I haven't responded sooner, I moved your note into my FL folder than forgot about it. It's this darned old age. We worked together in St. Louis I believe. I never worked in LAW. I moved to St. Louis in '68 as a Ticket Counter Supervisor. Was there a year and they did away with the position and I was sent to Denver in the same capacity. One year later I moved back to St. Louis as Assistant Manager. Was there another year and then went to Colorado Springs as Station Manager. I was under Bob Brown in St. Louis. Truman Jeter recommended me for the positions there. I was an employee of Frontier Airlines, Inc. from 11/07/61 until the day they declared bankruptcy. Would be glad to receive the FL News. Thank you...... (4/18/06) Jake Lamkins Hi Larry, Great hearing from you. I mailed a FL newsletter to you today. And I'll send you an invite to the FL Club right away. I was in STL 1968-70 then went to JAC. Where were you before STL and what positions? What have you been doing since FL? I went to work at the FYV post office in '88 and retired 3 years ago. P.S. I forgot to mention you may have some money coming from an ESOP lawsuit. Details are at the FL wensite link below. Phone 1-800-444-4823, ext 6258 to file a claim. They have L.G. Roberts on their list. (4/19/06) Larry Roberts I started with FL on 11/7/61 in Minot, ND as a Station Agent. After 2 miserable cold winters up there I transferred to Sidney, NE in May of '63. Was there 2 years when they reduced the 3 man station to a 2 man station and I was sent to Colorado Springs. I met Truman Jeter in Colorado Springs and we became good friends. Truman was a very ambitious guy and he moved up the ladder quite quickly. In '68 he called me up to see if I was interested in a position as Customer Service Supervisor in St. Louis. I accepted the position. Bob Brown was the Station Manager with Truman, Bob Dirksen and Jim Mustain as Assistant Managers. Around November of '69 my position in St. Louis was eliminated and I was sent to Denver in a like position. In November of '70 one of the Assistant Manager positions opened up in St. Louis. I believe it was when Jim Mustain went to Memphis, but not sure of that. Anyway, Bob Brown called me and offered the position to me and I moved back to St. Louis. In November of '71 I bid on the Station Manager position in Colorado Springs and was awarded the position. I was in Colorado Springs a second time now for 5 years. I was never too keen about being in management and didn't see eye to eye with Chuck Demoney or Ed Dunaway. So in late '77 I asked to go back to Station Agent and I moved to Gallup, NM until there was an opening in Phoenix. I moved to Phoenix in'78. I was furloughed in '85 when FL started having problems. I went to work for an attorney, whom my wife worked for, working with IBM desktop computers. I was called back to FL just as People Express was negotiating to buy FL. I went back and worked about 3 months and was offered their buyout. I took it and ran. The airlines industry was not looking good at that time, as you know. I kept working for the attorney until the work I was doing ran out. I then applied at a computer store and was hired. I worked there for 4 years during which time I was contracted out to Arizona Public Service, which is the electric utility serving all of Arizona. I was working with the APS computer network at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, which is the largest producer of electricity in the country. We are a 3 reactor plant. In '91 APS asked if I would come to work for them on a permanent basis. I did and will have 15 years with them in December of this year. I am a Network Administrator and still working with the network at Palo Verde. I turned 65 in February of this year so am eligible for retirement whenever I wish. I am thinking of doing it at the end of this year. Probably more than you wanted to know but that is a synopsis of my time with Frontier. I have so many fond memories of my time with them, along with some really sad ones, also. I lost my first wife to an unknown brain tumor after moving to Phoenix. I had one boy in the Air Force, 2 in high school and a baby boy 2 years old when she passed. My life was turned upside down. But I pulled through it finally, have remarried and am doing great. I looked over the FL site last night and you did one heck of a job of putting it together. You should be proud. I guess the one thing that has struck me quit hard was in looking at the obituaries and seeing so many of my old friends and co-workers that have passed on and I didn't know it. Many of them quite young when they passed. As for you working at the Post Office, isn't it amazing how some of us realized there was a life after Frontier, and found it. Others could not bring themselves to leave the industry and struggled along with it for many years. Thank you for bringing back so many memories, happy and sad. Frontier was a big part of my life and I appreciate reading about it again. Thank you for the News Letter. I am anxious to receive it. Talk to you again sometime, Jake, and thank you again for the great Frontier WEB site. (4/19/06) Larry Roberts Hi Jake, Thanks for the info. I've had 2 or 3 of the FL people here call me and tell me about the ESOP money. I have contacted Wells Fargo and taken care of it. Thanks again..... (5/4/06) Jake Lamkins Hi Larry, Did you finally get retired? (12/21/12) Larry Roberts Yes, I retired from Arizona Public Service at the end of '06. I had 15 years with them. Taking the buy-out from People-Express, when the opportunity presented itself, was the best decision I ever made. Again, thanks for the info on the new web site. (12/21/12) Jerrie Roberts Mr. Lamkins - I am Larry Roberts' widow. Larry passed away on November 16, 2024. He worked for Frontier Airlines for 23 years. I have attached Larry's obituary for your records. If you require anything else from me, please let me know. (12/14/24) Jake Lamkins I'm so sorry to hear about Larry. I worked a short while with him in St. Louis in 1968-69. I will build him a memorial webpage for the Frontier website and let you know when it is finished. I don't have any photos of him, so if you have some, particularly from his Frontier years, I could include them on his webpage. Take a look at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/ObitsAgents.html to see what the memorial webpages look like. My condolences to you and Larry's family. (12/14/24) Obituary Larry Glenn Roberts was 83 years old and living in Gold Canyon, Arizona, when he passed away on November 16, 2024. Larry was born on a ranch north of Chadron, Nebraska in Dawes County on February 7, 1941, the eldest child of Vic and Evelyn Roberts (Sundberg). Larry was a 1958 graduate from Chadron High School in Chadron, Nebraska. Larry worked for Frontier Airlines for 23 years as Station Manager. He retired after working 15 years for Arizona Public Service Company as a Computer Analyst at its Palo Verde Nuclear Plant west of Phoenix. Larry and his wife, Vivian (Johnson), had four sons. She predeceased him in 1983. Larry and Jerrie were married in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 24, 1997. Larry was happiest when riding one of his Harleys across country. He and Jerrie traveled over 200,000 miles throughout the United States and Canada on motorcycles. Larry had ridden Harleys since he was a teenager and, in his lifetime, rode about 350,000 miles on a motorcycle. Larry loved music of all genre, and especially enjoyed playing his piano. He is survived by his wife Jerrie Roberts (Christensen), sons Victor Roberts (Gloria), Kelly Roberts (Nancy), Casey Roberts (Nikki), Keaton Roberts, and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, brother Ben Roberts, sister Judy Roberts and late wife Vivian Roberts (Johnson). (12/14/24) File sent by Jerrie and also online at https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/mesa-az/larry-roberts-12085585 L G ROBERTS Emp# 07500 STL assistant manager transportation services DOB 2/7/41 DOH 11/7/61 Address in St. Charles, MO Per the Dec 1970 employees roster. L G ROBERTS Emp# 07500 Station agent seniority date of 4/23/70 Per the Jul 1984 station agents seniority list. Larry lost almost 9 years of union seniority when he went into management. L G ROBERTS Emp# 07500 PHX OO Address in Tempe, AZ Per the Nov 1984 employees roster. -Jake Lamkins (12/14/24) Jerrie Roberts Jake - I have attached a few pictures of Larry which were used at his funeral. I have nothing from his Frontier days. Feel free to use these. The lady is his mother. (12/15/24) Jake Lamkins THANK YOU, Jerrie! (12/16/24) FLacebook FLIGHT WEST POSTED LARRY ROBERTS 1961 - 1985 STATION AGENT, CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR, ASSISTANT STATION MANAGER, STATION MANAGER MOT SNY COS STL DEN GUP PHX http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Larry_Roberts.html Post your remembrances of him. -Jake Lamkins (12/24/24) Jerrie Roberts That is a very nice remembrance of Larry and his career life. Thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. I am doing well. I miss Larry, but I know Larry is where he wanted to be. He took good care of me and I am doing OK. He deeply loved our pets. Those were his best pictures. Merry Christmas to you. Richard Broome Larry was a good friend. Fred Watson R.I.P Larry. Larry Kramer Sorry to hear of Larry's passing. Great guy! Cyndy Camomile I worked with Larry in the Phoenix station. His wife, at the time, babysat my daughter each day. Larry talked me in to taking a motorcycle ride with him to work one day.... will never forget the side car experience! He was a wonderful man. Ginger Treptow May Larry Rest in Eternal Peace. I remember our years with Frontier, and he sang in the Christmas Tree Choir at Grace Community Church! That was a Christmas to remember! My Condolences to his Family! Trish Swanson-Hawk Sending prayers to his wife Jerrie, his family and many friends. Chuck Borden Worked with Larry in COS. RIP buddy. Condolences to family. (12/24/24)