Myrtle Robbins

ROBBINS, KELLY, LEWIS

Posted By: Jean Wenke, volunteer
Date: 2/22/2009 at 14:55:47

Mrs. Myrtle Robbins, 84, died about 3 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, 1964 in the Van Buren county Memorial hospital at Keosauqua where she had been a patient for one week. She had lived at the Davis Nursing Home at Keosauqua since October, 1962.

She was born at Farmington, March 7, 1880, the daughter of John and Jane Kelly. She was married to William Robbins and he preceded her in death in 1934.

She is survived by two sons, Dan Robbins of Keosauqua and Harold Robbins of Mt. Sterling; a daughter, Mrs. Edith Lewis of Burlington. There are 14 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services are tentatively set to be held Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m., at the Burnett-Catcott Funeral Home at Keosauqua. Burial. will be in the Bonaparte cemetery.

From Dorothy Watson's scrapbook