Person:Roberta Watson (1)

From a letter Bruce Palmer wrote to Clara Palmer Gambill May 11, 1958: After their marriage, they went to Washinton DC and Arturo was graduated from Georgetown University. Sometime in the last two or three years they were divisorced and sometime in 1956 she married another wealthy Chilean whose last name is de Reyes. She writes us so seldom and to her mother does not know when she was divorced or when she re-married.

News Building Visitors (News Article) Date: 1927-07-13 Part 2 Page 13; Paper: Dallas Morning News Historical Archive (c) Copyright, 2003, The Dallas Morning News News Building Visitors Visitors who inspected the News plant Tuesday: Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Watson, Barry, Ill.; Roberta Palmer Watson, Barry, Ill; Bill Watson, Barry, Ill, Ruth Pamer, Dallas; Mrs. R.H. Palmer, Dallas

Newspaper clipping in the Bonnell Book written by Margaret Alice Bonnell Watson in 1930 Wedding of Roberta Watson and Arturo Robinson

5/26/1935 written in pencil on the clipping.

ROBERTA WATSON, ARTURO ROBINSON MARRIED SATURDAY Are Taking Wedding Trip Thru South; Will Live in Hannibal, Mo.

The culmination of a pretty romance which had its inception on the campus of Hannibal-LaGrange College where the bride and groom were students this year, took place Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock, when Miss Roberta Palmer Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.B.B. Watson of Barry, became the bride of Mr. Arturo Robinson, son of Mrs. Carlotta Robins on of Valparaiso, Chile, South America. Dr. Andrew F. Morris, president of the college, said the impressive nuptial service in the parlors of the girls dormitory, in the presence of a gathering of students, members of the faculty, relatives and friends. The bride was attended by miss Donetta Six of Barry, Miss Margaret Aloise Bartholomew of Barry, and Miss Georgia Raukohl of Hannibal, while Messrs. J. Dillon Greenlee, Omar Walley and James Conner of Hannibal, and Philip Main of Barry, were groomsmen. The bride’s-maids flowers were corsages of roses and the groom and his attendants wore a white gardenia in their coat lapels. Before the marriage service there was a lovely musical program with Miss Helen Graves head of the voice department, singing, “Because” by D’Hardelot and Mr. Robert Winkler, a student at the college, singing, “At Dawning” by Charles Wakefield Cadman. They were accompanied by Mr. George Digel, a college student. Mrs. Lois Bartholomew of Barry, played the processional, using Mendelssohn’s wedding March. The lovely young bride was pretty in a yellow boucle sport suit with dark blue accessories and had a corsage of Talisman roses. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson met this year at the college where they were students and their romance developed during the semester, reaching its consummation in Saturday’s nuptials. Mrs. Robinson’s mother, Mrs. Watson is director of dramatics and in charge of the boy’s dormitory at the College. Mr. Robinson plans to attend Hannibal-LaGrange college next year, when he will be graduated, and then expects to matriculate at the University of Illinois. Among those in attendance were Mr. B.B. Watson, father of the bride; Mrs. W.W. Watson, her grandmother of Barry, her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Cooke of Springfield; Mrs. Lois Bartholomew, Miss Margaret A. Bartholomew, Miss Mary Frances Dowyle, Miss Mary Elizabeth Platz, miss Ollive McCallister, Mr. Charles W. Bartholomew and Messrs. Frank Albert Johnson, Phillip Main, Albert Burkhardt and Robert Oitker, all of Barry. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are making a trip in the south, and will visit friends inMuskogee, Okla., and the bride’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Palmer at Dallas, Texas, and expect to meet Mr. Robinson’s mother, Mrs. Carlotta Robinson and family at New Orleans, La. Upon their return they will be at home at 3003 St. Mary’s Ave., Hannibal, Mo.

1. ↑ Margaret Watson Cooke. Margaret Watson Cooke's Books on Bonnells, Hezekiah Lindsey, Buckinghams. (Compiled in 1960's).
2. ↑ Margaret Watson Cooke. Margaret Watson Cooke's Books on Bonnells, Hezekiah Lindsey, Buckinghams. (Compiled in 1960's).
3. ↑ Ruth Palmer Short's address book.
4. ↑ Ruth Palmer Short's address book.
5. ↑ Source.
6. ↑ Ruth Palmer Short's address book.