Linda Lee Robinson 1945-1998

ROBINSON THOMSEN LIGHTHALL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/7/2011 at 18:34:05

Sioux City Journal
24 December 1998

Funeral Services Held Wednesday For Linda Lee Robinson

Funeral Services for Linda Lee Robinson, 53, of Lawton, were held Wednesday, December 23, 1998 at 10:00 a.m. at Community Presbyterian Church in Lawton. Rev. Susan Miller, chaplin of Hospice of Siouxland, officiated. Interment was in Banner Township Cemetery, Lawton, under the direction of McCulloch Funeral Home in Moville.

Erline McNaughton, organist accompanied Congregational Hymns “Jesus Loves Me”, “Morning Has Broken” and “In The Garden.”

Casketbearers were Larry Hansen, Leo Lidgett, Brian McNaughton and Bill Mrla.

Mrs. Robinson was born May 31, 1945 in Sioux City, the daughter of E. Lloyd and Rosemary (Thomsen) Lighthall. She graduated from Lawton High School in 1963. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1969 and her master’s degree in Social science and criminal justice from the University of Iowa.

She was employed with the University of Iowa, the Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City and the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.

Mrs. Robinson died Saturday December 19, 1998 at Kingsley Nursing and Rehab Center following a lengthy illness.

Survivors include her parents of Lawton; two sisters and their husbands, Susan and Mark Ackelson of Des Moines and Joyce and Randy Howard of Lake Jackson, Texas; a brother and his wife, David and Kathy Lighthall of Hamilton, New York; three nieces and two nephews.