Louise Robison
SILVER LAKE -- Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Prairie Home Cemetery northwest of Topeka for Verna Louise Robison, 84, Silver Lake, who died Sunday, March 23, 2003, at a Topeka nursing home.
She was born July 6, 1918, in Clinton in Douglas County, to Charles Olin and Edna Grace Anderson Belles. She lived in the Lawrence area before she moved to Silver Lake in 1949. She worked as a riveter in an aircraft factory during World War II. She was a Medicare claims clerk for Blue Cross-Blue Shield from 1970 to 1980.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church and Senior Citizens Inc., both in Silver Lake.
She married Edward Howard Robinson on Sept. 5, 1942, in Las Vegas. He died April 18, 1969.
Survivors include a son, Bernard R. Robison, Topeka; two daughters, Carol J. Wichman, Silver Lake, and Janet G. Grimsley, Garden Valley, Idaho; three brothers, Charles Belles, Lawrence, Lynn Belles, Burney, Calif., and Howard Belles, Norwalk, Calif.; two sisters, Dorothy Goff, Lawrence, and Opal Dow, Grass Valley, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Robison will lie in state after 3 p.m. today at Parker-Price Mortuary in Topeka, where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the health care chapel fund at the Presbyterian Manor, 4712 W. 6th, 66606; Senior Citizens Inc., 404 E. Lake, Silver Lake, 66539; or the United Methodist Church, 204 Madore, Silver Lake, 66539.