On Friday, July 26, 2024, Roberta “Cis” (Murphy) Varrasso, of Butler, joined her beloved husband Sam into our Heavenly Father’s care.
Roberta was born on June 4, 1937, to John and Cecilia Murphy in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. She attended Saint Paul’s School in Butler, PA, and graduated from Butler High School in 1955. Roberta worked for Dr. Lawrence May in Butler in the mid 1950’s to early 1960’s, she was a member of All Saints Parish., St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in Butler.
On October 21, 1961, Cis married Salvatore “Sam” Varrasso at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church in Butler. They were inseparable from that day forward until Sam’s death on August 4, 2014. Cis and Sam provided a loving and happy home for their five daughters and later their nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Cis’s greatest joy came from watching her immediate and extended family grow. She was an avid baker and enjoyed baking for family and friends. She always made sure there was a Sunday family dinner to bring everyone together.
Roberta is survived by her five daughters, Ann Marie Barr, Nancy Jo (Eric) Braun, JoAnn Mahlmeister, Karen (Mark) Chambers, and Kathy (Mark) Kemeny, her grandchildren, Christopher Barr, Matthew Barr, Megan Barr, Erik Braun, Salvatore Braun, Michael (Meghan) Braun, Daniel Braun, Brett Mahlmeister, and Sarah (Tylor) Sauers, and great grandchildren Roman, Haley, Mackenzie, Lillian, and Samuel. She is also survived by her brother Daniel Murphy and his wife Joan, brother-in-law Ed McGowan, and sisters-in-law Joan Murphy and Mary Eiler and many beloved nieces and nephews.
ln addition to her husband, Salvatore, Roberta was preceded in death by her sisters Cecilia (John) Taucher, Joan (Steve) DeAugustino, Bernice (William) Parkes, Patricia McGowan, her brother John Murphy, and her twin brother Robert Murphy.
Friends will be received at the Geibel Funeral Home, 201 East Cunningham Street, Butler, from 2-4 and 6-8 pm on Monday. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, at 10:00 am, at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 128 North McKean Street, Butler. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Butler.