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Alena Theora “Lena” <I>Clark</I> Robinson

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Alena Theora “Lena” Clark Robinson

Birth
Point Arena, Mendocino County, California, USA
Death
6 Aug 1949 (aged 70)
Hopland, Mendocino County, California, USA
Burial
Hollister, San Benito County, California, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Wife and mother, and respected landowner.

Married William Dwight Robinson at Point Arena on November 17, 1894. She was 15, he was 27. They made their initial home at Stewarts Point, and moved to Hopland around 1909.

Children:
Essa Mae Robinson Winfree (1895-1989)
Dorothy Delores "Dot" Robinson Ashurst (1897-1923)
William Russell Robinson (1899-1954)
John Lloyd Robinson (1902-1988)
Fern Ileen Robinson Jones (1906-1956)
Marjorie Joyce "Joy" Robinson Paullus Berke Walquist (1910-1980)

She divorced her first husband for cause in 1921, and received custody of the children.

She briefly remarried when she was 49, but she filed for divorce after only 2 months and 8 days. An interlocutory decree of divorce from her second husband Wilford Moroni Yorgason, on April 29, 1929, was noted at page 8 of the Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat. A final decree of divorce was issued by Judge H. L. Preston, as reported in the Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat on April 30, 1930.

She was a wealthy woman, and spent her winters visiting her children and grandchildren in California and in Florida.

According to the staff at Chapel of the Chime in Santa Rosa, she was not inurned there. She was cremated there, and her family brought her cremated remains to the burial location of her first husband, in Hollister.
Wife and mother, and respected landowner.

Married William Dwight Robinson at Point Arena on November 17, 1894. She was 15, he was 27. They made their initial home at Stewarts Point, and moved to Hopland around 1909.

Children:
Essa Mae Robinson Winfree (1895-1989)
Dorothy Delores "Dot" Robinson Ashurst (1897-1923)
William Russell Robinson (1899-1954)
John Lloyd Robinson (1902-1988)
Fern Ileen Robinson Jones (1906-1956)
Marjorie Joyce "Joy" Robinson Paullus Berke Walquist (1910-1980)

She divorced her first husband for cause in 1921, and received custody of the children.

She briefly remarried when she was 49, but she filed for divorce after only 2 months and 8 days. An interlocutory decree of divorce from her second husband Wilford Moroni Yorgason, on April 29, 1929, was noted at page 8 of the Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat. A final decree of divorce was issued by Judge H. L. Preston, as reported in the Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat on April 30, 1930.

She was a wealthy woman, and spent her winters visiting her children and grandchildren in California and in Florida.

According to the staff at Chapel of the Chime in Santa Rosa, she was not inurned there. She was cremated there, and her family brought her cremated remains to the burial location of her first husband, in Hollister.

Gravesite Details

Her obituary in the local newspaper stated she would be inurned at Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa, but she was cremated there on August 10th, and her ashes unofficially buried at the IOOF cemetery in Hollister.



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  • Created by: Titania
  • Added: Oct 31, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43773858/alena_theora-robinson: accessed ), memorial page for Alena Theora “Lena” Clark Robinson (20 Mar 1879–6 Aug 1949), Find a Grave Memorial ID 43773858, citing Odd Fellows Cemetery, Hollister, San Benito County, California, USA; Maintained by Titania (contributor 47132024).