Repinski Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Surname branches:
My branches:
Repinski-Deitz-Brown-Smith-Sayles-Scott-Marbury-Dryeden-Cope-Raleigh
Cokie's Branches:
Raliegh-Lockwood-Hoo-Townsend-Stith-Thorp-Bray-Claiborn-Boggs-Roberts
Cokie Roberts died this past week on September 17, 2019.
I remember listening to Cokie on NPR (National Public Radio) on my many drives and years later as she worked for the TV news networks. Her reporting was brilliant and captivating.
She was a true legend in news reporting.
Cokie was also my distant cousin through our shared ancestral Great Grandmother, Margaret Verney Raleigh.
Forward
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (nee Boggs), better known as Cokie Roberts, was an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author. She was a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Roberts also worked as a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, wrote a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She served on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.
My Shared Ancestry With Cokie Roberts
As I was reading about her life I came upon the discovery that Cokie and I were related through a family line from my mother's side of her family and Cokie's mother's side that goes back to Early England.
The ancestral great grandmother that we both shared was a woman who lived in England in the mid 15th and early 16th centuries by the name of Margaret Verney Raleigh.
Margaret was born in 1145 in London England and died in 1509 in Warickshire England.
Margeret was the daughter of Sir Ralph Verney, Lord Mayor of London and Emma Verney (Pyking)
She was married twice.
Her first husband was Sir Edward Raleigh, Kight (1443-1513).
Her second husband was Ranulph de De Lockwood (1420-1480).
With Sir Edward, Margaret had the following children:
Edward Raleigh, Esq.; Mary Wodhull (Raleigh); Anne Ralegh; Emme Ralegh; Anthony Ralegh, of Warwickshire; Joan Raleigh.
With Ranulph Margaret had one son; Henricus de Lockwood.
My line would descend from her first husband, Sir Edward and their sone Edward Raleigh Junior (.
Cokie's line would descend through her second husband, Ranulph Lockwood and their sone Henrricus.
My Ancestral Family Connection to Cokie
Cokie Roberts is your 16th cousin.
You
→ Marlene Grace Repinski
your mother → Raymond Harold Dietz
her father → Henry Chester Dietz
his father → Eleanor May Dietz
his mother → Mary E. Brown
her mother → Mary Elizabeth Smith
her mother → Ziba Smith
her father → Elizabeth Smith
his mother → Esther Sayles
her mother → Major Sylvanus Scott
her father → John Scott
his father → Katherine Scott
his mother → Bridget Marbury
her mother → Elizabeth Dryden
her mother → Bridget Cope
her mother → Edward Raleigh, Esq.
her father → Margaret Raleigh (Verney)
his mother → Henricus de Lockwood
her son → Robertus de Lockwood
his son → Agnes Lockwood
his daughter → Joane Hoo
her daughter → Mary Townsend
her daughter → Mary Stith
her daughter → Dorothy Fenn Thorpe
her daughter → Sarah Claiborne Bray
her daughter → Capt. Thomas Claiborne, Jr.
her son → Col Nathaniel Claiborne
his son → Colonel William Claiborne
his son → Gen. Ferdinand Leigh Claiborne, Sr.
his son → Colonel Ferdinand Leigh Claiborne, II
his son → Louis Bingaman Claiborne
his son → Roland Philemon Claiborne
his son → Lindy Boggs
his daughter → Cokie Roberts
her daughter
Life Sketch of Cokie Roberts
(Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts)
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was born on December 27, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
She received the sobriquet "Cokie" from her brother Tommy, who could not pronounce "Corinne".
Cokie Roberts was the third child and youngest daughter of former ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of the late Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.
Roberts attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls school in New Orleans, before graduating from the Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, D.C. in 1960 and then Wellesley College in 1964 where she received a BA in Political Science.
Marriage & Family
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| Steven Roberts and Cokie Roberts |
Cokie married Steven V. Roberts, a professor and fellow journalist, in 1966. They met in the summer of 1962, when she was 18 and he was 19.
She and her husband had two children, and six grandchildren.
Her daughter, Rebecca Roberts, is also a journalist and was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election.
Career
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| Left: Nina Totenberg (from left), Linda Wertheimer and Cokie Roberts photographed around 1979. Right: Totenberg, Wertheimer and Roberts pictured more recently at NPR's headquarters. |
Cokie Roberts served as a senior news analyst for NPR, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
Roberts was the co-anchor of the ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts from 1996 to 2002, while also serving as the chief congressional analyst for ABC News. She covered politics, Congress and public policy, reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts.
Before joining ABC News in 1988, Roberts was a contributor to PBS in the evening television news program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
Her coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair for that program won her the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 1988. Prior to joining NPR, Roberts was a reporter for CBS News in Athens, Greece.
She also produced and hosted a public affairs program on WRC-TV in Washington, DC. From 1981 to 1984, in addition to her work at NPR, she also co-hosted The Lawmakers, a weekly public television program on Congress.
Roberts is also a former president of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.
Roberts has won numerous awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress[9] and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to "Who is Ross Perot?"
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| Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts on "This Week" |
Author
She was the author of the national bestseller We Are Our Mother's Daughters as well as Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. The book, published in 2004, explores the lives of the women behind the men that wrote the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Her latest book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, continues the story of early America's influential women that helped shape the United States during its early stages, and chronicling their various public roles and private responsibilities.
Death
Cokie passed away Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 at age 75 after a battle with Breast Cancer that she fought since being diagnosed in 2002.
She is survived by her husband Steve Roberts, two children and six grandchildren.
Her funeral Mass was broadcast on C-SPAN and was livestreamed on both NPR and ABC from the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, symbolic of the towering legend in media and Washington, D.C., circles Roberts was.
St. Matthew's was the site of President John F. Kennedy's funeral in 1963.
Every fall, it hosts the Red Mass, which marks the beginning of a new Supreme Court term. Two popes have visited the cathedral as well.
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| St. Mathews on the day of Cokie's Funeral Service |
Rest in Peace Cokie
I am honored to call you "Family"
Sources & Further Reading
https://www.geni.com/people/Cokie-Roberts/6000000002734991333
https://www.geni.com/people/Margaret-Raleigh-Verney/6000000006444366446?through=6000000002734991333
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/21/762775454/she-touched-their-lives-friends-family-gather-to-remember-cokie-roberts
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