MISS T. ROBERTSON PASSES AWAY AT WEST DISE HOME
Funeral Services Here Tuesday for Aged Gentlewoman
Miss Tennessee Robertson, a member of an old and Prominent Louisiana family, passed away at her home in West Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon at 1:20, after a short illness. Her body is resting at the Rabenhorst Funeral home here, and the funeral will take place from there Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services in St. James Episcopal church. Rev. J. S. Ditchburn officiating. She will be laid to rest in the family plot in Magnolia Cemetery. Miss Robertson had passed her 83rd birthday October 12, and her death occurred the next day. Surviving are a sister Mrs. K. L. Lavalle of Dallas. Tex.,
and a number of nieces and nephews. Miss Robertson's brother, Dr. Alex R. Robertson has died within the year, and a sister Miss Ernestine Robertson with whom she made her home, passed away a month ago. Since her sister's death she had been in declining health, and her strength gradually waned. Widely known among a host of friends on the West Side as "Miss Tennie", Miss Robertson was admired and beloved. Her father was Judge W. B. Robertson, prominent in the affairs of this portion of Louisiana during an earlier generation, and her mother was Mary Chinn Robertson. Miss Robertson was a gentlewoman representative of an old and cultured family.
