ObituariesAugust 9, 1999

EAST PRAIRIE -- Pheaby Z. Robison, 89, of East Prairie died Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999, at the Bertrand Nursing Facility. She was born April 1, 1910, at Lilbourn, daughter of David and Lilly Shaw Butler. She and Edgar Robison were married Jan. 9, 1928. He died Dec. 22, 1984...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Pheaby Z. Robison, 89, of East Prairie died Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999, at the Bertrand Nursing Facility.

She was born April 1, 1910, at Lilbourn, daughter of David and Lilly Shaw Butler. She and Edgar Robison were married Jan. 9, 1928. He died Dec. 22, 1984.

She is survived by a son, Emmitt Robison of East Prairie; two daughters, Beth Couch of Jonesboro, Ark., and Inda Rowe of Mount Olive, Ill.; a brother, A.L. Butler of Smithland, Ky.; two sisters, Mary Mason of Harve DeGrace, Md., and Leora Van Winkle of Geneseo, Ill.; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

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She was preceded in death by three sons and a sister.

Visitation was Sunday. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. today at the Shelby Chapel, with the Rev. Terry Dean officiating.

Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery near Charleston.

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