ROBERT JEROME ROBBINS

ROBBINS, GREENOUGH, SCOTT, KELLY, FRIEDEN, LAND, MULLOY, KRATOCHVILLE, OGEL, BAECHLER

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 11/28/2002 at 20:56:45

ROBERT JEROME ROBBINS

Robert Robbins Funeral Monday

Funeral services for Robert J. Robbins, rural Postville, were held Monday, Dec. 5, 1983 at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Elgin. The Rev. Tom Parrott officiated. Burial was in Illyria Cemetery. The Muehlethaler Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Robert Jerome Robbins, the son of Herve and Lana Robbins, was born June 13, 1919 on a farm near Wadena. He died Dec. 1, 1983 in West Laco, TX.

He was baptized and confirmed into the Methodist faith at the Illyria Community Church.

He was a graduate of Elgin High School. He farmed in the Illyria area, was associated with dairy barn sanitation, Clermont, and also was skilled at artificial insemination of animals.

On Aug. 19, 1971 he was married to Mary Ann Scott in Harmony, MN.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his first wife, Gertrude (Greenough); and two sisters, Mrs. Susan Kelly and Mrs. Norma Frieden.

Surviving are his wife, Mary; two sons, Robert, Jr., Waucoma, and Matt, Elgin; four daughters, Mrs. Juanita Lang, McGregor, Mrs. Sherene Mulloy, Edgerton, WI, Mrs. Robert Kratochville, Prairie du Chien, WI, and Tiffany Robbins, Postville; three stepchildren, Kymm, Todd and Tracy Scott; two sisters, Mrs. Flossie Ogel and Mrs. Ruby Baechler, Elgin, 10 grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.