Saratoga Springs, NY - David C. Roberts died Monday, November 8, 2010 after a prolonged illness at the Wesley Health Care Nursing Home. He was 87. Born on May 7, 1923 in Ft. Kent, ME David was the son of the late Earl H. Roberts and Augusta Ella Pinkham Roberts. He attended Ricker Junior College and Colby College after which he joined the service. David served in the U.S.Air Force in WWII as a S-Sgt Bombadier-Navigator. He served in Central Europe, Southern France, Northern France and Rhineland Ardennes and completed 25 combat missions as a waist gunner on a B24 bomber on the Liberator Captain Marvel with the 8th Army Air Forces flying out of England. His decorations and citations included Distinguished Unit Badge, Air Medal Ribbon, Three Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, EAME Service Ribbon, and one Silver Service Star. He participated in the Army Aviation Cadet Program. He was wounded on February 14, 1945 in the EAME Theater and was honorably discharged in 1945. He went to work at his mothers theaters in Madawaska, Maine for a year before graduating from Colby College with a major in Economics. He then joined the John Hancock Life Insurance Company where he remained for forty years. In 1957 he was promoted to Supervisor and a year later was employed as General Agent for the State of Maine. While General Agent he often presented sales seminars in Boston and other places. David was active in his Presque Isle and Gorham, Maine church holding various positions, as well as singing in the choir. He was Treasurer and Zone Chairman of the Presque Isle Kiwanis Club, Treasurer of Gorham Republican Town Committee and Representative to several state conventions, Treasurer and Zone Chairman of Lions International, President of Southern Maine Association of Life Underwriters, and President of State of Maine General Agents and Managers Association. He was appointed by the Governor of Maine to the Agents Ethics Committee for Life and Health Insurance, serving most of his eight years as Chairman of that Committee. David was appointed a member of the original Board of Trustees of the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine, serving as Treasurer for the eight years including during the construction phase of the new building. Survivors include his wife of 22 years, Ruth Elizabeth Coldiron Roberts; two daughters, Lynn OLeary and Diane Webster from Gorham, ME as well as four grandchildren, Michael Caruso, Shelley OLeary, Timothy J. OLeary, IV, and Jason Webster. David is also survived by five great grand children and one sister, Ruth Roberts Clark. He was predeceased by his older brother, Kenneth Roberts and a baby brother, John who died in infancy. Funeral services will be held in Saratoga Springs, NY on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM in the Activity Room on the first floor of the Wesley Health Care Center Nursing Home. The Rev. Jay Ekman of the Presbyterian- New England Congregational Church will officiate. Burial will be at the Gerald B.H. Solomon-Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville at a later date. In lieu of flowers please consider contributions to the following in memory of David: The Wesley Health Care Center Foundation, 131 Lawrence St.; Saratoga Care Foundation, 211 Church St., or The Presbyterian-New England Congregational Church Endowment, P.O. Box 582, all of Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Arrangements are under the direction of the William J. Burke & Sons/Bussing & Cunniff Funeral Homes of 628 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs (584-5373). Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome.com.