Obit: Robinson, Glenn D. (1892 - 1970)

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Surnames: Robinson, Sonnenberg, Dushek, Seaton

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Tuesday 14 July 1970 page 14

Robinson, Glenn D. (23 May 1892 - 13 July 1970)

G.D.Robinson Rites Thursday

Neillsville--Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m., Thursday at the Georgas Funeral Home for Glenn D. Robinson, 79, who died Monday morning at Memorial Hospital. The Rev William Dushek, pastor of the United Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will take place in the Neillsville cemetery.

Friends may call, beginning Wednesday morning, at the funeral home and Masonic services will be held at 8 p. m., Wednesday. Masons are asked to meet at the Masonic Temple at 7:45 p. m.

Glenn D. Robinson was born May 23, 1892, at Neillsville and was educated here, graduating from the Neillsville High School in 1911. He graduated from Carroll College, Waukesha, in 1915, and was hired by the E. I. Dupont Co., Barksdale. In about 1918, he was transferred to a plant in Philadelphia.

In 1945 he retired and moved to Neillsville, after which he went into the business of Warlum-Robinson, a plumbing and heating firm. He was married on July 14, 1923, at Detroit Mich., to the former Margaret Seaton, who survives him. Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Ray (Berris) Sonnenberg, Renton, Wash.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Emer.

Mr. Robinson was a member for 53 years in the Washburn Lodge No. 240, Free and Accepted Masons; was a 50-year member of Excelsior Consistory, West Collingswood, N. J., and was a member of Crescent Temple Shrine, Trenton, N.J.