John Robertson (1860-1930)

ROBERTSON, WHITE, BARLOW, CHURCHILL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal May 17, 1930 (page 1)

VETERAN COLO HOTEL MAN DEAD

JOHN ROBERTSON, 70, VICTIM OF CANCER--FUNERAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Special to the Journal.
Colo, May 17--John Robertson 70, veteran hotel and restaurant man of Colo, died at his home here Friday evening at 6:00 from the effects of a cancer. He had been ill since October of 1928 and confined to his bed for over a year.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist church in Colo and interment will be in the Colo cemetery, under the auspices of the I. O. O. F. lodge, of which he was a longtime member. The sermon will be preached by Rev. Adamson of Collins, and he will be assisted in the service by Rev. McCartney of the Methodist church of Colo.

Mr. Robertson was a native of Lennie Park, Edinburgh Shire, Scotland, where he was born February 21, 1869. He came to America with his parents when a lad of 13 years. They settled first in Lasalle county, Illinois, Where they lived for a few years, after which they came on out to Iowa located in Marshall county. Mr. Robertson's home had been in Marshall or Story county since.

He was married September 12, 1905 to Miss Dursilla White at Aledo, Ill., and they had always made their home in Colo, where Mr. Robertson had been engaged in the hotel and restaurant business, in which he was successful and a popular host.

He leaves five brothers and two sisters. The brothers are Edward of Brighton, Iowa, David and George who are in California, Murray who is in Utah and Robert of Alden, Iowa. The sisters are Mrs. Ed Barlow of Marshalltown and Mrs. S. B. Churchill whose home is in California. There are also numerous nieces and nephews.

John Robertson was a man well-known by the traveling public whose business took them along the Iowa division of the Northwestern and his table and kindly treatment was remembered by many.

Mr. Robertson was a man of fine character and was a great student and reader. His reading was of the best and he was seldom seen at his place of business unless there was a good book nearby with which he might occupy his spare moments.

John Robertson is a man who will be missed in Colo by a wide circle of friends and neighbors.