Los Angeles-Ventura-Orange County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Robison (Berkey), Ethel B. December 1959
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L.A. Times Dec 1959
 ETHEL B. ROBISON
    Early Sunday morning, Dec.
29, death clamed Mrs. Ethel 
Robison, 85, after an illness of
2 ½ months.  On Dec. 24, she
was taken to St. Jude Hospital,
where she passed away.  The
family home is at 7602 Ninth St.
    Ethel Berkey was born April 
21, 1872 in Hebron, Neb., where
she grew to womanhood and 
taught school for several years.
    In 1897, she came to Calif. 
with her family.  After graduat-
ing from Los Angeles Normal
School, which later became 
UCLA, she resumed teaching,
having a school in Topanga Can-
yon.  There she met and was 
married to Joseph B. Robison.
    After living for several years 
on his ranch there, they moved
to Merced, coming to Buena 
Park in 1915.  Mr. Robison pass-
away 20 years later, in 1935.
    Mrs. Robison served as presi-
dent of the local Parent Teacher
Association in 1918-20.  She was
also a member of the Woman’s
Club, but her greatest interest 
was in the Congregational
Church, where she was at var-
ious times a Sunday School tea-
cher and Cradle Roll Supt. She
was until recently active in the
Love and Service Class and the 
Womens’s Fellowhip.
    Survivors include four daught-
ers and two sons, Irma Payton,
Bertha Spohn and Albert Robi-
son of Buena Park, Florence
Porter of Phoenix, Ariz., Mable
Payton of Wallace, Idaho, and 
Lewis Robison of Reseda; a sis-
ter, Mrs. Eleanor Berkey Miller 
of Van Nuys; nine grandchild
ren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Katharine Berkey, former
local librarian, is a sister-in-law,
Miss Elizabeth Berkey, well-
known member of the Buena
Park High School faculty, is a
niece.
    The Rev. Gordon J. Baker con-
ducted the memorial service at 
11 a.m. in the Congregational
Church.  Serving as pall bearers
were J. B. Sullivan, F. R. Dukes,
W. B. Shaw, Harry Horn, Stan-
ley Patchet and W. E. Davis.
    Interment followed in Loma
Vista Memorial Park, with Ren-
aker Mortuary in charge.



Additional Comments:
Ethel Berkey came to California in in 1897, taught School in Topanga Canyon and 
married Joseph Robison who was from Scotland.  She was my Great Grandmother.

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