Obit of Carl Gene Robertson (r163) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  23 Aug 2002
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Surnames: Robertson, Carrkier, Austin, Benton, Whitson, Farris 

Originally posted at:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/4851

Funeral services for Carl Gene Robertson was conducted Monday, 
December 23, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. from the United Methodist Church of 
Sayre with Rev. Joe Peery, officiating.  Burial was followed in the 
Lone Oak Cemetery under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of 
Sayre.

Carl Gene Robertson was born October 8, 1940 at New Liberty, Oklahoma 
to Dimp and Ella Mae Carriker Robertson and passed away Wednesday at 
the age of 58.  He attended school at New Liberty until it closed and 
then graduated from Berlin High School in 1956.  He continued his 
education at Southwestern State College in Weatherford where he 
earned a B.S. in Chemistry.  In 1963 he moved to St. Elmo, Illinois 
where he entered Eastern Illinois University at Charleston, Illinois 
and received his EDS and Masters in Administration.  Carl Gene;s 
first teaching position was Biology and Chemistry at St. Elmo, 
Illinois where he taught for 14 years.  He was married to Janet 
Austin on June 20, 1965 at St. Elmo.  He also owned and operated a 
gift and floral shop at St. Elmo for some 3 years.  In November of 
1980, the Robertsons moved to Sayre where he worked in the oilfield, 
logging wells.  He taught at McLean, Texas for 2 years and then 4 
years at Cheyenne and then at Sayre in 1988 where he has been since.  
He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a Shriner and a member of the United 
Methodist Church of Sayre.

Survivors include his wife, Janet Robertson of the home; 2 children, 
Leslie Lorraine Robertson, a student at Oklahoma City University and 
Wesley Charles Robertson of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado 
Springs, 3 sisters, LaGayle Benton, Treva Whitson and linda Sue 
Farris all of Sayre and 2 uncles Virgil Robertson and Delbert 
Roberson of Sayre.  A scholarship in Carl Gene Robertson name has 
been established at the Great Plains National Bank of Sayre.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 7-Jan-1999