Edna (Lau) ROBINSON

ROBINSON, LAU, BARZ, PETERSON, WOODBURY, PIPHO, OTTO, KNAPP, BRIGHTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/20/2010 at 19:20:20

December 13, 2000
Headlight Herald - Tracy, Minnesota

Edna Robinson, 90

Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, December 16, 2000 at 1 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Garvin for Edna Robinson. Visitation will be at the Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy on Friday, December 15 from 4 to 8 p.m. There will be a 7 p.m. Eastern Star service and a 7:30 p.m. prayer service. Visitation on Saturday will be at the church one hour prior to services. Rev. Edsel Miller will officiate with Dorine Brock as organist and Jerry Engesser as soloist. Casket bearers will be Michael Peterson, James Woodbury, Clayton Campbell, Harold Engesser, Gary Brinks and Dennis Christianson.

Edna Robinson was born October 2, 1910 to Henry and Anna (Barz) Lau in Klemme, Iowa the 5th of six children. They moved, when she was a young child, to a farm east of Tracy, that became known as Cloverdale. Edna attended public schools and graduated from Tracy High School in 1929 and completed a year of normal training in Tracy before starting her teaching career in country schools in Murray and Lyon counties. She was married to Lester E. Robinson on June 25, 1940 in the Tracy Presbyterian Church and they moved to the George Robinson family farm in Custer Township where they farmed until 1964. In 1964, Edna and Lester moved to their farm west of Balaton where they lived until 1995. After Lester's retirement in 1978, they spent most winters in Arizona. Lester died in 1995 and in August 1995 she moved to the O'Brien Court in Tracy and was presently a resident of the North Ridge Care Center in New Hope, MN. Edna was a faithful member of the Garvin Congregational Church and an active member of the Ladies Aid. She was a member of the Delta Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and one of its Past Worthy matrons. An avid gardener she had been a member of the Tracy Garden Club and when her daughters were young she served as a Girl Scout Leader. Her daughters will remember her as a “great” mother.

Edna died on Saturday, December 9, 2000, at the North Ridge Care Center at the age of 90 years. She is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Barbara and Robert Peterson of Hudson, WI and Beverly and Maynard Woodbury of Ramsey, MN; her grandchildren, Lynn and Scott Pipho of Anoka, Roberta Peterson and Neil Otto of St. Louis Park, Michael Peterson and fiancee Stephanie Knapp of Kansas City, KS, Michelle Woodbury and fiancée David Brighton, and James and Cathy Woodbury, all of Blaine; one great-grandchild, Chris Woodbury; one brother Milton Lau of Oconomowac, WI; nieces, nephews and cousins. Her parents, husband, two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.