JULIE ANNE ROBERTS

GRAVESIDE SERVICE: 1:00 PM Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at HEBREW MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY Julie Anne Roberts, age 63 of Troy Michigan died of a long-standing fight for over 24 years with a progressive form of progressive multiple sclerosis, a rare form of seronegative LRP4 myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease involving very significant respiratory failure and complex Posttraumatic stress disorder. Julie Roberts is survived by her son Colin Roberts of Troy, Michigan, Zoey of Troy Michigan, her grandson Luca Halsey of Portland, Oregon, daughter Tiara and wife Vanessa Halsey of Portland. Julie skipped high school and most of her childhood. Instead, she earned her bachelor's degree from Cal State University of Northridge, a Master's in interactive telecommunications from New York University's Interactive Tisch School of the Arts, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix in marketing. Julie was a published author with business technology publications on the topics of Interactive 800 Services and making money with your 800 and 900 telephone services. She also wrote a book on a child of Synanon growing up in a cult/commune in California in the 70s, published in 1978. She worked in Product Management and Marketing In telecommunications technologies, including broadband, wireless, satellite, microwave, and video. Julie wishes that gifts be donated to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Michigan (MG-MI). Donations can be made at the top of the web screen at MG-MI.org. Julie grew up in Los Angeles, California and spent time in the Syananon community as a child. Julie‘s favorite hobbies were: bird breeding, bird watching, and observing bird behaviors of all kinds documenting how to create bird and vegetable gardens, creating native gardens and numerous articles and publications on helping your child with autism go to college and helping your child with autism become an engineer and other related publications Such as applying for Social Security and disability benefit benefits for specific disabilities. Julie loved to volunteer with a wide variety of organizations, helping teach people how to apply for disability, how to access grants and resources to pay for insurance, medications they could not afford, treatments that were not covered by their insurance, and how to navigate and advocate for themselves and their families. For much of Julie‘s life, her family did not understand her many medical problems and often chose to treat them as though they were trauma or stress related or perhaps mind created and she asked that people take a few moments in the future to better understand their friends and family, and the people around them and be sure that they’re providing the best supports that they can rather than simply judging them or trying to diagnose them. She experienced much sadness and loneliness in her life, navigating a very difficult world that is not often kind to those who are chronically ill, somewhat different, on the spectrum, and or socially different. INTERMENT: Hebrew Memorial Park Cemetery Officiator: Rabbi Menachem Caytak CONTRIBUTIONS: If you would like to further honor the memory of Julie Roberts you may do so by making a contribution to: To help pay for burial and funeral services, please earmark Julie Roberts Hebrew Benevolent Society 26640 Greenfield Road Oak Park, MI 48237 (248) 543-1622 www.hebrewmemorial.org Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Michigan (MG-MI). Donations can be made at the top of the web screen at MG-MI.org.

JULIE ANNE ROBERTS

January 3, 1962 - June 13, 2025

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January 3, 1962 - June 13, 2025

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