Sussex-Surry Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Robertson, Dudley S., 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ DUDLEY SKINNER ROBERTSON DUDLEY ROBERTSON DIED IN FLORIDA; FUNERAL SATURDAY Dudley Skinner Robertson, 63, of Wakefield, died Wednesday evening, June 10, in Leesburg, Florida. A native of Surry county, he was a son of Jesse Thomas Robertson and Nannie Osborne Robertson. He was a retired farmer and farm implement dealer for New Idea and John Deere. He was a member of the Wakefield Baptist Church, Ruritan Club, Wakefield Masonic Lodge 198 and Khedive Temple, Norfolk. He attended Hargrave Military Academy and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jeanette Hill Robertson; a son, Dr. D.S. Roberson, Jr., of Leesburg, Fla.; one brother, Eugene T. Robertson and six sisters, Mrs. Maude R. Sledd, Richmond; Mrs. W.H. Carter, Amherst; Mrs. R.G. Hutcheson, Staunton; Mrs. Allen Jones, Steel’s Tavern; Mrs. E.C. Nettles, Wakefield, and Mrs. Horace R. Higgins, Waverly. Funeral services will be held at Purviance Funeral Chapel on Saturday, June 13, at 11 a.m., with the Rev. James B. Crocker officiating. Interment will be in Wakefield Cemetery. Dudley Skinner ROBERTSON, retired farmer & farm implement dealer, b. 22 Jun 1900, Surry Co., d. 10 Jun 1964, Leeburg, Lake Co., FL, marked in Wakefield Cemetery*, 13 Jan 1961, donated obit *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt His mother's obit ("News Leader" {Staunton, VA}, Jan. 12, 1961, p. 6) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/r163n2ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/r163d1ob.txt