Marcia Ann Roney Anderson

On July 30, 2014 Marcia Ann Roney Anderson peacefully departed this life for the next, surrounded by loving family and friends. Marcia was born December 23, 1941 in Hutcheson, Kan., but spent most of her childhood growing up in Okmulgee, Okla. She graduated from Oklahoma City University and received her master's degree in psychology after attending graduate school at the University of Arizona. Marcia then went on to an internship at UAMS before continuing her career in child-psychology with the Child Study Center for the next 30+ years. In the early years of her career, Marcia was part of a team of colleagues at UAMS doing pioneering work with autistic children. Many of the therapies they developed are still part of the regimen prescribed by professionals to this day. Marcia Anderson touched the lives of many young children during their early stages of their life, which she considered the most critical for behavioral development. She was also a very dedicated and loving wife, mother, grandmother and extended her love to many others who became part of her life. Marcia had the amazing ability to combine her professional and domestic lives and handle all of it with the perfect blend of efficiency and common sense which made her the ultimate Super-Mom. Marcia was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Anderson Jr., her parents, Erma and Lyle Roney, and brother, Curtis Roney. She is survived by: her son, Richard Anderson III and his wife Kimberly Smith Anderson; son, Christopher Anderson and his wife Dawn Fruitticher Anderson; sister, Marilyn Schick and her husband Al of Georgetown, Texas; and her sister-in-law, Monnie Roney of Tulsa, Okla. She is also survived by her five beloved grandchildren named Sean, Benjamin, Justin, Kaitlyn and Zachary. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 2, 2014 in the Chapel of Roller-Chenal Funeral Home 13801 Chenal Parkway, Little Rock, Arkansas (501) 224-8300. Burial with follow at Riverwood Memorial Gardens, Maumelle, Arkansas. Online guestbook:www.rollerfuneralhomes.com./chenal.