Obituary:  A. Frank Robinson, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: January 2005



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Services for A. Frank Robinson, age 96 of Grayson will be
held at 2 p.m., Sunday, October 3, 2004 from the Grayson
United Methodist Church in Grayson with Rev. Howard Hudson 
officiating.  Don C. Burns will deliver the euology.  
Interment will follow in the Welcome Home Cemetery.

Mr. Robinson was born in Lawrence, Ms. on November 10,
1907 to the union of Alonzo Floyd and Nora Eugenia  Powell
Robinson and died Friday, October 1, 2004 at the Citizens 
Medical Center in Columbia.

He was a retired vocational agriculture teacher.  He received
his B. S. and Masters Degree from L.S. U.  He was a lifelong 
member of the Grayson United Methodist Church, a mason, a member 
of the Columbia Lions Club and a former alderman or the Village 
of Grayson.

He will be remembered as a wonderful father, loving grand-
father and great-grandfather.  He led by example, providing
a solid presence in the lives of his family.  He was a dedicated
educator who was always concerned that his students reach
their highest potential.

He was preceded in death by his wife: Lora Bell McKeithen
Robinson, his parents, his sister: Julia Frances Robinson Shaw,
and his brothers: Ira Powell Robinson, Willie Cecil Robinson 
and Roy Robinson.

Survivors include his son  and daughter: John Frank and 
Sarah Robinson, his daughter and son-in-law: Mary Eugenia 
and Don C. Burns all of Grayson, his grandchildren: Sherry
Robinson, Lora Fabacher and her husband: Ray, Wes Burns
and his wife: Amanda and his great-grandchildren: Dillon 
Fabacher, Cody McElroy and Amber Burns, his nephews: Billy 
Milton Shaw of Austin, Tx., John Ivy Patterson, John Wesley 
McKeithen both of Grayson, his neice: Sue Belle Murphy of 
Grayson and ten great neices and nephews.  

Pallbearers will be John Wesley McKeithen, James Murphy, 
Craig Roark, John Ivy Patterson, Billy Milton Shaw, Eugene 
Robinson, and Paul Roark.

Honorary pallbearers are Leonard Robinson, Clif Burns, D.
W. Thomas, Cecil Weeks, Bob McGee and Stan Waldrop.

Memorials may be sent to Grayson United Methodist Church,
P.O.Box 177, Grayson, La. 71435

    Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until noon at Riser Funeral

Home and from 1 p.m. until time of services at the Grayson

United Methodist Church.