Through her involvement with the National Association of Professional Women, Roberta C. Gibson Pevear was selected to receive a 2013 Woman of the Year Award.
EXETER, NH, December 28, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Roberta C. Gibson Pevear has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Roberta C. Gibson Pevear is a retired state legislator who served with the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988, representing Hampton Falls and Hampton, New Hampshire, on the Environment and Agriculture Committee, and serving as the clerk of committee. She is very proud of her instrumental role in crafting an evacuation plan for the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, the only such facility in the state.
In addition to being featured in a May 2017 issue of American Legion Auxiliary Magazine, Ms. Pevear has co-edited a 500-page Civil War true story entitled, "Write Quick: War and a Woman's Life in Letters, 1835-1867." This story is presently in development as a film, to be called "Heartache: A Woman and the Civil War." It is in the State House Library, as well as the DAR Library in Washington, D.C.
Born in Bethel, Maine, to Frank Albert, Sr., and Thirza Hickford Gibson, Ms. Pevear attended Gould Academy to study commercial art, and joined Wilner Wood Products as secretary to the owner in South Paris, Maine, in the late '40s. She went on to serve as an export secretary of Whitaker Cable Corporation, and as a district secretary of Anheuser-Busch in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1960, she became a legal secretary with an officer of Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Ms. Pevear went on to join the Law Firm of St. John, Ronder and Bell in Kingston, New York, as secretary to Mr. St. John, continuing her familiarity with legal affairs. In 1967, she joined Sears, Roebuck and Company in administration in Overland Park, Kansas, and in Exeter, New Hampshire.
While serving in the New Hampshire Legislature, Ms. Pevear was a sales agent of Avon Products in Hampton Falls. She represented Hampton Falls as a commissioner of the Rockingham Planning Commission from 1979 to 1988, and as a commissioner of the New Hampshire Planning Commission from 1985 to 1988. Ms. Pevear served on the Rockingham County Executive Committee, and as chairman of the Rockingham County Home Committee. In addition, she served as civil defense director for Hampton Falls from 1980 to 1988.
Ms. Pevear is a member of the Exeter Chapter of DAR and chairman of the Veterans Committee, where she sponsors Liberty House. Located in Manchester, New Hampshire, Liberty House is a transitional home for homeless veterans. Ms. Pevear served as regent of the Ranger Chapter of DAR in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for four years. Additionally, Ms. Pevear was affiliated with the National Order of Women Legislators and the New Hampshire Order of Women Legislators. She maintains involvement with the Exeter Sportsman's Club, having served on its Board of Directors for three years.
Through her involvement with the National Association of Professional Women, Ms. Pevear was selected to receive a 2013 Woman of the Year Award. She is also the recipient of a 1982 Community Citizen Award from the Hampton Falls Grange, a 1985 Seacoast Retired Senior Service Award, and a 2014 Inspirational Woman of the Year Award from Women's Radio Network. Ms. Pevear was selected for inclusion in numerous volumes of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Politics, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who of American Women.
In 1971, Ms. Pevear married Edward Gordon Pevear, who had served in Europe during World War II under General Patton and retired as a supervisor of shipfitters of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, in 1978, following 37 years of government service. In her spare time, Ms. Pevear enjoys writing, portrait painting and genealogy. To learn more about Ms. Pevear's creative works and to support her documentary, please visit http://www.robertapevear.com.
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