COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Roberta “Bobby” Adams Otis, formerly of Wilton, died Oct. 28, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

She was born Aug. 22, 1920, in Palo Alto, Calif., a daughter of Ephraim Douglass and Florence (Ober) Adams. She graduated from Denver High School and Colorado College, Class of 1941. At a USO dance in Colorado Springs in the early 1940s, she met Allen Otis of Chesterville. They married in 1953 at the West Point Military Chapel.

Together, they followed his Army career to New Mexico, Kansas, Germany, New Jersey and Massachusetts. They moved to Maine in 1970, when he retired. She remained in Maine until 1983, when she returned to Colorado.

Bobby was always optimistic and could see good in any situation. She enjoyed sewing, gardening, reading and working on crossword puzzles. She also enjoyed watching sports on TV, especially baseball. While in Wilton, she was a member of the Wiltona Club. When her children were young, she was a den mother and helped with the Girl Scouts.

She is survived by a son, Allen J. Otis, and his wife, Rosemarie, of Beaverton, Ore.; a daughter, Jane O. Kircher, and her husband, Tom, of Biddeford; five grandchildren, Raven Otis, Rowan Mead, Charles Kircher, James Kircher and Mary Kircher; three sisters, Elizabeth Armstrong, and her husband, Bill and Sally Ann Adams, all of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Florence Clark, and her husband, Gardiner, of Ithaca, N.Y.; a sister-in-law, Mary Otis Dole of Shelburne Falls, Mass.; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband in 1973; her parents; and three brothers.