OBITUARIES: Ernest Robinson; Wapello County, Iowa
   
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

Extractions from the Blakesburg Excelsior Wapello County, IA  Feb 1925 
Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Martha Richards 
maseattle@copper.net

Microfilm from State Historical Society of Iowa Blakesburg (Wapello co, IA) 
Excelsior Newspaper, Jan 1, 1925 (missing issues Aug 6, 13;)  Oct 8, 
1925-Dec 25, 1930  Microfilm from State Historical Society of Iowa
======================================================================================

Feb 12, 1925

ERNEST ROBINSON
     Ernest Everett, son of William and Martha ROBINSON, was born at the family 
homestead, January 14, 1885 and died at the Missouri Pacific hospital at St. Louis, 
February 5, 1925 at the age of 40 years and 22 days.  Surviving relatives are his father, 
Wm. ROBINSON, four brothers, T. E. ROBINSON of Elkhead, Mo.; S. H. ROBINSON 
of Blakesburg; M.W. BULLINGTON of Oregon; W. H. BULLINGTON, Dailey, Colo.  
Two sisters, Mrs. Annie LOCKMAN WHITE, Cloy, Nebr. and Mrs. Lizzie McALISTER 
of this place.  His mother and three sisters having preceded him in death.  For several 
years Ernest’s health as been failing and January 13th he submitted to an operation from 
which he was too weak to recover.  For the past 25 years he has been a telegraph operator 
and a member of the order of Railroad Telegraphers.  For 15 years of that time having 
worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, first in Arkansas and Louisiana.  Later because 
of failing health he was transferred to Nebraska and Kansas and finally in hopes that a 
higher altitude would prove beneficial he was sent to Colorado.  Ernest was a loyal friend 
and an agreeable companion.  He was a consistent reader and very much interested in 
sacred music.  He will be much missed among his business associates and friends, and 
especially from the home of his sister, Mrs. McALISTER, where he always spent his 
vacations.  The body was brought to his old home from where the funeral was held 
Sunday afternoon at one o’clock, Rev. Par DONAHOO conducting the services.  
Interment in the Arnold Cemetery.