Dorothy M. "Dottie" Robinson

Graveside funeral services for Dorothy Mozelle "Dottie" (Brown) Robinson on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 2 PM in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery south of Centerville. Rev. Glenn Connor officiated and the Walters Funeral Home in Centerville was in charge of arrangements.

Dorothy Brown was born April 8, 1925 in Madison County, Texas to Luke and Ellen (Fox) Brown. She was one of four children. Dorothy attended in Madisonville Schools and was involved in agriculture with her parents until the time that she met Elton E. Robinson of Leon County. She married Elton on September 21, 1942. Almost immediately, Elton was shipped to Africa with the Army Air Corps to participate in World War II. While Elton was off fighting in the war, Dorothy purchased a 300 acre farm at Dingerville and raised cotton. She always took great pride in being the youngest farmer to bring in a bale of cotton in Madison County in 1944.

After the war and when Elton returned, she sold the farm and began a lifelong career as a housewife and mother to three children: Elton Ray (1943), Marsha Marlene (1946) and Kathleen (1949). Elton remained with the Air Force after World War II and thus began a period of Dorothy's life that she enjoyed the most. Being a career Air Force wife meant plenty of travel and she loved to go! In the end, she had lived and traveled all over the United States, Europe and the Middle East. She never tired of pullgouirk ing up her roots and planting them elsewhere.

After Elton retired in 1972, they moved to Midway, Texas. Dorothy missed the excitement of the Air Force and traveling. But, she enjoyed being closer to her family and her grandchildren and always enjoyed their visits. When Elton, her husband of fifty years, died in 1993, Dorothy moved to Bryan and then to Brenham, Texas to be closer to her children. She remained in Brenham until her death.

Dating back to the time she was a child, Dorothy was a longtime member of the Elwood Baptist Church. She was a regular attendee from 1972 until 1993. Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Elton E. Robinson; daughters, Marsha O'Banion and Kathleen Smith; sons-in-law, Tim O'Banion and Steve Smith; sister, Modene Walker and brother, Wallace Brown. Dorothy Mozelle "Dottie" Robinson passed away May 20, 2009 in Brenham, Texas at the age of 84 years.

Dorothy's surviving family includes her son and his wife, Elton Ray and Cynthia Robinson; a sister, Francis Ticknor; nine grandchildren, Michael O'Banion and his wife, Sarah, Tommy Moore and his wife, Aaryn, Michele Hirata and her husband, Jeff, Kuim Horne, Bobby Smith, Rachel Westervelt, Reagan McIntyre and her husband, Harvey, Kathryn Kenjura and Matthew Kenjura and his wife, Catherine; twelve great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.