Robertson, Jay Douglas 1919-1984

ROBERTSON, SOMMERVOLD, PUTTMANN, LUCKEN, DEAN

Posted By: Bruce Atkinson (email)
Date: 10/31/2007 at 18:12:16

Jay D. Robertson
AKRON, Iowa – Jay Douglas Robertson, 64, of Akron died Wednesday in the Veterans Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. after a long illness.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Union Creek Lutheran Church, rural Akron. The Rev. Benard Nelson will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. A prayer service will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron.
Mr. Robertson was born July 16, 1919, at LeMars. He married Opal Sommervold June 8, 1949, at Akron. He farmed in the Akron area for 15 years, operated a laundromat in Marcus from 1964 to 1974, and was a mechanic for International and John Deere from 1974 until retiring in 1983.
Mr. Robertson was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in Italy, North Africa and the Middle East.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Richard (JoEllen) Puttmann of Sioux City and Miss Beth at home; two sisters, Mrs. Donald (Darlene) Lucken of Akron and Miss Marjorie of San Francisco, Calif. And one brother, Calvin of Akron.
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Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa) of 29 June 1984.