Argyle – Dr. Vernon L. Robinson, 81 a retired mathematician and astronomer died Thursday evening at Flow Memorial Hospital. He retired in 1966 from Wright Petterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio as a scientist mathematician after 17 years of U.S. Civil Service.

From 1935 to 1937, he was assistant conservationist of the US Department of Agriculture. Robinson held a number of faculty positions as was an astronomer at the University of Virginia and at Harvard. He taught at Texas, South Carolina, Radcliff, Amarillo College, Marshall College, Oklahoma City, Texas Tech and Emory.

Funeral service will be at 2 p m Saturday at Goen Funeral Home chapel with Dr. Charles Sanders officiating. Burial will be in Bethany Cemetery in Plano. The family will be at Goen Funeral Home tonight from 7 to 8.

Robinson was born Feb 8, 1898 at Beech Grove, Tennessee. He moved to Texas as a small child and received his elementary education at Plano. He once said he never saw the inside of a classroom until he was 12, but he went on to earn bachelors and master's degrees from the University of Texas and his PhD from Harvard.

His Austin degrees were in math and his Harvard degree was in astronomy. He lived on Route 2, Argyle, and was a lifelong member of the Christian Church.

Robinson was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America.

He has been listed in the "Who's Who in America Education", "Leaders in American Men of Science" and "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry".

In 1977, a 1,000-book collection from the library of Dr. and Mrs. Robinson was presented to TCU.

Survivors include his wife, Mary R.Garrison Robinson, whom he married Nov 26, 1969, in Dayton, two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Reed of Plano and Mrs. Warren Gibbons of Fort Worth and several nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to the First Christin Church or the TCU scholarship fund.

Published in the Denton Record-Chronicle on February 1, 1980