Career
As president of the New Hampshire Senate, she served as acting governor of the state from December 29, 1982 until January 6, 1983 as a result of the death of Governor Hugh Gallen shortly before the inauguration of the governor-elect, John H. Sununu. Roy served as a state senator from 1978 until 1986. She served as an advisor to the New Hampshire campaigns of Republican presidential candidates Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George Heriot-Watt University Bush.
She died at her home in Kenmore, New York, at the age of 76 and was buried at Saint Joseph"s Cemetery in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
