Carl Gene Robertson

© Cheyenne Star

07 Jan 1999

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Carl Gene Robertson were conducted Monday, December 23, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. from the United Methodist Church of Sayre with Rev. Joe Peery, officiating. Burial followed in the Lone Oak Cemetery under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of Sayre.

Carl Gene Robertson was born October 8, 1940 at New Liberty, Oklahoma to Dimp and Ella Mae Carriker Robertson and passed away Wednesday at the age of 58.

He attended school at New Liberty until it closed and then graduated from Berlin High School in 1956.

He continued his education at Southwestern State College in Weatherford where he earned a B.S. in Chemistry.

In 1963 he moved to St. Elmo, Illinois where he entered Eastern Illinois University at Charleston, Illinois and received his EDS and Masters in Administration.

Carl Gene's first teaching position was Biology and Chemistry at St. Elmo, Illinois where he taught for 14 years.

He was married to Janet Austin on June 20, 1965 at St. Elmo.

He also owned and operated a gift and floral shop at St. Elmo for some 3 years.

In November of 1980, the Robertsons moved to Sayre where he worked in the oilfield, logging wells.

He taught at McLean, Texas for 2 years and then 4 years at Cheyenne and then at Sayre in 1988 where he has been since.

He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a Shriner and a member of the United Methodist Church of Sayre.

Survivors include his wife, Janet Robertson of the home; two children, Leslie Lorraine Robertson, a student at Oklahoma City University; and Wesley Charles Robertson of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs; three sisters, LaGayle Benton, Treva Whitson and Linda Sue Farris, all of Sayre; two uncles, Virgil Robertson and Delbert Robertson of Sayre; as well as other relatives and numerous friends.

A scholarship in Carl Gene Robertson's name has been established at the Great Plains National Bank of Sayre.

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