ROBERTSON, Eslie (Scofield) 1894-1994

ROBERTSON, SCOFIELD, NEFF, LACOSTE, MCMANUS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/26/2012 at 19:01:21

Mrs. Eslie Robertson, 99, of Nora Springs, died on Wednesday, January 5, 1994, at the Nora Springs Care Center.

Funeral services were held Satuday at the Christian Church in Nora Springs, with Rev. W. Green officiating. Burial was in Rock Grove Cemetery near Nora Springs.

She was born on January 11, 1894, in Millington, Illinois, the daughter of Howard and Alice (Neff) Scofield. She attended schools in Milington, Illinois and Manitoba, Canada, and then moved with her parents to Cass Lake, Minnesota, where she finished school.

She married Edwin Robertson in April of 1912, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. They lived in Minnesota until the late 1950's when they moved to Nora Springs.

She loved to watch birds, play the organ, gardening, crocheting and, most of all, her family.

Survivors include two daughters, Mabel McManus and Florence Kelly, both of Nora Springs; one son-in-law, Eugene LaCoste, Floyd; 13 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and 49 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one daughter, Blanche LaCoste; one brother; three sisters; and two grandchildren, Norman McManus and Dan LaCoste.

[ NORA SPRINGS ADVERTISER, Jan. 12, 1994 ]