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Submitted: 3/13/23 • Approved: 3/13/23 • Last Updated: 4/14/24 • R1475914-G1475913-S3
Kenneth
April 18, 1930 - December 12, 2012
Virginia
April 20, 1933 - December 24, 2021
Obituary
Jones-Hartshorn Funeral Home
Hamburg, Arkansas
Virginia L. Robertson, 88, of El Dorado, died Friday, December 24, 2021
at the Cornerstone Specialty Hospital in Little Rock. Mrs. Robertson has
been a resident of El Dorado for the past 65 years and was a former
resident of Parkdale for many years. She retired from El Dorado Paper
Bag after 35 years of dedicated service and everyone she ever worked
with lovingly called her “Granny”. She enjoyed doing anything outside
and when she put on her big straw hat, she was gardening, working in
the yard, tending to her flowers or going fishing. She loved her family
and above all things, she looked forward to the time she was able to
spend with her children and keeping grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Kenneth
Robertson in 2012; a granddaughter, Angie Lee Shields in 2015; a
great-granddaughter, Anna Marie Shields in December of 2020; her
parents, Lawrence and Olvie Wilson Davis; three sisters, Ruby
Wilkerson, Lucille Greene and Margie Prescott; two brothers, Raymond
Davis and Thurman Davis and a son-in-law, Babe Kirby in 2003.
She is survived by a son, Malcolm Robertson and wife, Laura; a
daughter, Deborah Kirby all of El Dorado; a brother, Marvin Davis; a
sister, Vivian Ware both of Hamburg; three grandchildren, John-Martin
Burkland of Malvern, Dillon Burkland of El Dorado and April Wendt and
husband, Otto, of Palmer, Alaska; four great-grandchildren, MacKenzie
Clark, Corey Clark, Ashleigh Wendt and Justin Shields and wife, Kyrstin;
six great-great-grandchildren, Everleigh, Vivanne, Wyatt, Brandon,
Casey and Lily and a grandson-in-law, Mitch Breck Shields.
Graveside services are 10 a.m., Tuesday, December 28, 2021, in the
Hamburg Cemetery with Bro. Joel Meredith officiating. Memorials may
be made to the Union County Animal Protection Society (UCAPS) PO
Box 204, El Dorado, AR 7173
Contributed on 3/13/23 by deltabelle55
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