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| Written by PI Web | |
| Friday, 20 June 2008 | |
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“There is nothing better than the feeling you receive from knowing that because you were there, someone received help and, hopefully, encouragement.” — Roberta Petty Preceptor Xi Phi’s Woman of the Year Preceptor Xi Phi sorority recently honored Roberta Petty with the Woman of the Year award and Verita Emmons with the First Lady of the Year title for volunteer service in the community. Woman of the year Petty, incoming vice president of Preceptor Xi Phi, has served as sorority program director this year. She is a past president of Soroptimist International of Patterson and has served on various committees in the local club.  Roberta Petty “Roberta has been so faithful in everything she does,” sorority member Zora Arredondo said. “We are so grateful she is in our club.” Petty, a 1966 graduate of Hayward High School, was a divorced mother of three children by the age of 24. She went back to school to learn job skills and began working for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department. She married her second husband, John Petty, in 1979, and the couple had two children. The Pettys moved in 1985 to Patterson, where Roberta Petty stayed at home with her children. When they grew older, she worked for Culligan in Patterson and then spent eight years as administrative director of the Patterson-Westley Chamber of Commerce. Petty said she is honored to receive the award because the women who bestowed it upon her are all community-involved women she admires. “There is nothing better than the feeling you receive from knowing that because you were there, someone received help and, hopefully, encouragement,” Petty said. First Lady of the Year Emmons was born and raised in Patterson and has given much of her time to the Apricot Fiesta. She was parade chairwoman for 18 years, craft fair chairwoman for three years and organizer of the children’s game area for two years. Wearing many hats, Emmons was also Apricot Fiesta vice president for four years and president this year, succeeding Kitty Lambert, who died in July. “We are so fortunate to have Verita as president of the Apricot Fiesta,” Arredondo said. “We thought it fitting to present her with the First Lady Award for her years of dedication to Patterson and the annual Fiesta.” Emmons married her first husband and moved to Oklahoma in 1980. After her divorce, she returned to Patterson. She married her second husband, Lea Emmons, in 1988, with whom she has three sons and a grandson. She loves to fish, camp, crochet and surf the Internet. The Woman of the Year title is given to a woman who is a member of the sorority, while First Lady of the Year is awarded to a woman in Patterson who is not a sorority member.
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