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Wayne Roberts grasps the hand of an employee with Axelson Funeral & Cremation Services as Lynne Roberts’ body is taken away after her death that morning on Thursday, June 6, 2024. “I feel so torn,” Wayne had previously said of Lynne dying. “I feel like my heart has been ripped in two and left with jagged edges. One side of it doesn’t want to let her go. And the other sure wishes that she would peacefully cross.”
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This is a picture story that follows Wayne and Lynne Roberts, of Butte, through the struggles and rewards of family caregiving in the last year of her life.