Lena Mabel Robertson 1878 - 1952

ROBERTSON, BAIRD, WALKINSHAW

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Date: 5/28/2017 at 11:04:48

the Oct 2, 1952 edition of the Morning Sun News Herald.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in Sharon Reformed Presbyterian Church for Mrs. John P. Robertson, 74, who died in Burlington hospital Monday, September 29. Mrs. Robertson had been hospitalized for more than two weeks with a heart ailment.

Lena Mabel Baird was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Baird and was born in Des Moines county on August 20, 1978. On December 31, 1906 she was married to John P. Robertson who survives.

Also surviving are two sons, Clayton and James, both of Morning Sun; Mrs. Marjorie Brown, Fulton, Mo., Mrs. Gertrude Fish, Wapello; Mrs. Hilma Gardner, Rock Island, Ill., Mrs. Dorothy Swanson, Burlington; Mrs. Mirian Smith, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mrs. Betty Caparoon, Muscatine, and Mrs. Barbara Howe, Manteca, Calif. One son, Donald, two brothers and one sister are dead.

Other survivors include 4 brothers, a sister, 21 grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren.

Final rites were in charge of Re. John O. Edgar and interment was in Sharon cemetery.