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Submitted: 12/12/21 • Approved: 12/12/21 • Last Updated: 12/15/21 • R473380-G473380-S3
March 30, 1898-February 17, 1994
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Bessie Robertson, 95, died Thursday, Feb. 17, 1994.
Se3rvices were Saturday, Feb. 19 in First Baptist Church. Rev. M.B. Smith of Pampa and Rev. Robert Helsley, pastor, officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Robertson was born in Indian Territory and moved to Wheeler in 1913 from Estelline. She was a graduate of Wheeler High School. She married Lester Robertson Sr. in 1919 at Wheeler. He died in 1935. She was a nurse at Wheeler Hospital for 25 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Robertson also was preceded in death by a son, Lester Robe4rtson Jr., in 1978.
Pallbearers were Dr. Larry Barbour, C.B. Brotherton, Richard Gaines, Dr. Louie Mendiola, Bobby Vanpool and Hyland Weaver.
Survivors include two sons, Glenn Robertson of Bay City and Billy Robertson of Wheeler; two brothers, Ray McLain of Amarillo and Robert McLain Jr. of Fort Worth; a sister, Lillie Carlyle of Amarillo; seven grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 60, Number 13, Thursday, February 24, 1994, Page 1)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bessie Robertson
Death Date: 17 Feb 1994
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Bessie E. Robertson
Last Residence:
79096 Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 30 Mar 1898
Died: 17 Feb 1994
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