Parents: Rosa Steele and Henry Tyler Robinette
REBA SUSAN ROBINETTE
24 Nov 1914 - 25 March 2006
WEBER CITY, Va. - Reba Susan Robinette, 91, died on Saturday (March 25, 2006) at the Brian Center Nursing Home in Weber City, Va., after an extended illness.
Born in the Fairview community of Scott County, Miss Robinette was one of 11 children of Henry Tyler Robinette and the second of six girls born to his second wife, Rosa Steele Robinette. She grew up in poverty in the Fairview area of Scott County with all the then-standard duties of a farm girl in a sharecropping family.
Miss Robinette received her undergraduate degree at Lincoln Memorial University and later a master's degree from East Tennessee State University.
Never married, she spent her professional life focusing on children's education, initially in school systems of southwest Virginia and later in the Kingsport City Schools. Before her retirement in 1985, she lived for many years in the Lynn Garden community and served as principal of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Elementary Schools in Kingsport, the latter for 20 years. Her professional career as an educator spanned 51 years.
During her adult life, she spent much of her spare time involved in educational enrichments for children, leading Sunday School and Vacation Bible Schools in Scott County and in caring for her aged parents as well as her beloved nephews, nieces and their offspring.
She was a lifelong member of Zion Baptist Church in Fairview, the same church she had attended and joined as a child. Immediately before her death, she was the oldest member of that church. Her brother-in-law, Rev. Paul Blessing, was her main caregiver for the last years of her life.
Miss Robinette was active in Meals on Wheels, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Scott County Retired Teachers Association and the Kingsport Retired Teachers Association.
Miss Robinette survived all of her siblings, three brothers and seven sisters. She remained close to her immediate family all of her life. She leaves numerous surviving nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Scott County Funeral Home in Weber City, Va.
Services will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Steve Collins and Rev. Paul Blessing officiating.
Following the service, interment will be at Holston View Cemetery in Weber City with the Daughters of the American Revolution assisting.
Carter-Trent/Scott County Funeral Home is serving the Robinette family.
REBA SUSAN ROBINETTE
24 Nov 1914 - 25 March 2006
WEBER CITY, Va. - Reba Susan Robinette, 91, died on Saturday (March 25, 2006) at the Brian Center Nursing Home in Weber City, Va., after an extended illness.
Born in the Fairview community of Scott County, Miss Robinette was one of 11 children of Henry Tyler Robinette and the second of six girls born to his second wife, Rosa Steele Robinette. She grew up in poverty in the Fairview area of Scott County with all the then-standard duties of a farm girl in a sharecropping family.
Miss Robinette received her undergraduate degree at Lincoln Memorial University and later a master's degree from East Tennessee State University.
Never married, she spent her professional life focusing on children's education, initially in school systems of southwest Virginia and later in the Kingsport City Schools. Before her retirement in 1985, she lived for many years in the Lynn Garden community and served as principal of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Elementary Schools in Kingsport, the latter for 20 years. Her professional career as an educator spanned 51 years.
During her adult life, she spent much of her spare time involved in educational enrichments for children, leading Sunday School and Vacation Bible Schools in Scott County and in caring for her aged parents as well as her beloved nephews, nieces and their offspring.
She was a lifelong member of Zion Baptist Church in Fairview, the same church she had attended and joined as a child. Immediately before her death, she was the oldest member of that church. Her brother-in-law, Rev. Paul Blessing, was her main caregiver for the last years of her life.
Miss Robinette was active in Meals on Wheels, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Scott County Retired Teachers Association and the Kingsport Retired Teachers Association.
Miss Robinette survived all of her siblings, three brothers and seven sisters. She remained close to her immediate family all of her life. She leaves numerous surviving nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Scott County Funeral Home in Weber City, Va.
Services will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Steve Collins and Rev. Paul Blessing officiating.
Following the service, interment will be at Holston View Cemetery in Weber City with the Daughters of the American Revolution assisting.
Carter-Trent/Scott County Funeral Home is serving the Robinette family.
Parents: Rosa Steele and Henry Tyler Robinette
REBA SUSAN ROBINETTE
24 Nov 1914 - 25 March 2006
WEBER CITY, Va. - Reba Susan Robinette, 91, died on Saturday (March 25, 2006) at the Brian Center Nursing Home in Weber City, Va., after an extended illness.
Born in the Fairview community of Scott County, Miss Robinette was one of 11 children of Henry Tyler Robinette and the second of six girls born to his second wife, Rosa Steele Robinette. She grew up in poverty in the Fairview area of Scott County with all the then-standard duties of a farm girl in a sharecropping family.
Miss Robinette received her undergraduate degree at Lincoln Memorial University and later a master's degree from East Tennessee State University.
Never married, she spent her professional life focusing on children's education, initially in school systems of southwest Virginia and later in the Kingsport City Schools. Before her retirement in 1985, she lived for many years in the Lynn Garden community and served as principal of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Elementary Schools in Kingsport, the latter for 20 years. Her professional career as an educator spanned 51 years.
During her adult life, she spent much of her spare time involved in educational enrichments for children, leading Sunday School and Vacation Bible Schools in Scott County and in caring for her aged parents as well as her beloved nephews, nieces and their offspring.
She was a lifelong member of Zion Baptist Church in Fairview, the same church she had attended and joined as a child. Immediately before her death, she was the oldest member of that church. Her brother-in-law, Rev. Paul Blessing, was her main caregiver for the last years of her life.
Miss Robinette was active in Meals on Wheels, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Scott County Retired Teachers Association and the Kingsport Retired Teachers Association.
Miss Robinette survived all of her siblings, three brothers and seven sisters. She remained close to her immediate family all of her life. She leaves numerous surviving nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Scott County Funeral Home in Weber City, Va.
Services will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Steve Collins and Rev. Paul Blessing officiating.
Following the service, interment will be at Holston View Cemetery in Weber City with the Daughters of the American Revolution assisting.
Carter-Trent/Scott County Funeral Home is serving the Robinette family.
REBA SUSAN ROBINETTE
24 Nov 1914 - 25 March 2006
WEBER CITY, Va. - Reba Susan Robinette, 91, died on Saturday (March 25, 2006) at the Brian Center Nursing Home in Weber City, Va., after an extended illness.
Born in the Fairview community of Scott County, Miss Robinette was one of 11 children of Henry Tyler Robinette and the second of six girls born to his second wife, Rosa Steele Robinette. She grew up in poverty in the Fairview area of Scott County with all the then-standard duties of a farm girl in a sharecropping family.
Miss Robinette received her undergraduate degree at Lincoln Memorial University and later a master's degree from East Tennessee State University.
Never married, she spent her professional life focusing on children's education, initially in school systems of southwest Virginia and later in the Kingsport City Schools. Before her retirement in 1985, she lived for many years in the Lynn Garden community and served as principal of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Elementary Schools in Kingsport, the latter for 20 years. Her professional career as an educator spanned 51 years.
During her adult life, she spent much of her spare time involved in educational enrichments for children, leading Sunday School and Vacation Bible Schools in Scott County and in caring for her aged parents as well as her beloved nephews, nieces and their offspring.
She was a lifelong member of Zion Baptist Church in Fairview, the same church she had attended and joined as a child. Immediately before her death, she was the oldest member of that church. Her brother-in-law, Rev. Paul Blessing, was her main caregiver for the last years of her life.
Miss Robinette was active in Meals on Wheels, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Scott County Retired Teachers Association and the Kingsport Retired Teachers Association.
Miss Robinette survived all of her siblings, three brothers and seven sisters. She remained close to her immediate family all of her life. She leaves numerous surviving nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Scott County Funeral Home in Weber City, Va.
Services will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Steve Collins and Rev. Paul Blessing officiating.
Following the service, interment will be at Holston View Cemetery in Weber City with the Daughters of the American Revolution assisting.
Carter-Trent/Scott County Funeral Home is serving the Robinette family.
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