Roma Acheson attended small elementary schools at Fordwich and Kippen in western Ontario, high school at Parkhill S.S., and the University of Western Ontario, where Lloyd Auckland and Ken Fryer were two of her classmates.
She taught at Dundalk D.H.S., Flesherton H.S., and Grey Highlands S.S. where she was department head.
Her son Ted says that “next to her family, mathematics was the love of her life". He also said that receiving the Descartes Medal in 1978 was very therapeutic for her during her battle with cancer. Roma died on Nov. 24, 1979.