COURTNEY ROBERTSON

ADA-Services for Courtney Robertson, 84, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Monday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Revs. Dean Stone and Jeff Sloan will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted at the cemetery.

Mr. Robertson died Thursday, May 8, 2008 at a local hospital. He was born January 31, 1924 at Ada, Oklahoma to T. A. and Gertie Davis Robertson. He attended Wilson school and graduated from Vanoss High School.

He married Jessie Mae Turner on September 11, 1943 at Ada, Oklahoma. Mr. Robertson retired from Oklahoma State Board of Affairs. He worked in the Maintenance Department at East Central University for 15 years, and was a building superintendent for the Abbott-Miller Health and Social Service Center for 14 years. Previously, he owned and operated Robertson Refrigeration. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church, and had served as a mechanic in the U. S. Army with the 9th Airborne in England, France, and Germany.

Survivors include his wife, Jessie Mae, of the home; a daughter, Joyce Collings and husband Larry, Ada; two sons, Gerald Robertson, Houston, Texas, and Larry Robertson and wife Patty, Ada; grandchildren, Donald Collings, Denver, CO, Kim Collings, Norman, Steven Shipman and wife Alice, Charlottesville, VA, Julie Robertson, Houston, TX, Brenna Robertson, San Antonio, TX, Chad Robertson and wife Lindsey, Norman, and Elliott Alberson, Ada; a great grandson, Chalin Robertson, Norman; and a sister, Irene Chilcoat, Oklahoma City.

He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant brother, George Robertson; a sister, Thelma Adams; and daughter-in-law, Charlotte Robertson.

Bearers will be Chad Robertson, Elliott Alberson, Steven Shipman, John Turner, Perry Turner, Donald Collings, and Norvell Turner.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada