William Robotham

Funeral Services were held 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, June 22, 1988 at the Aurora United Methodist Church. Interment was held in the Richland Cemetery near Marquette.

OBITUARY: William Robotham

William Lee Robotham, the son of Plin and Carol (Petsch) Robotham, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, on October 28, 1948, and passed away at Aurora, Nebraska, on June 19, 1988, at the age of 39 years, 7 months, and 21 days.

The first 6 years of his life were spent in Tamora, where he began his education. In 1954, they moved to a dairy farm near Marquette. He attended school in Marquette and was a 1966 graduate of Marquette High School, where he lettered in athletics.

He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and received a bachelor of arts degree in animal science in 1970. He was in the ROTC and was commissioned a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army upon graduation. He trained in the infantry at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and then was stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington. In September of 1971 he was sent to Vietnam, and in March 1972 he returned to the United States with the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

In 1973, he formed a corporation with his father and brother, Steve, to run a dairy farm, a business he ran until his death.

On November 26 of this year he was to marry Sandra Hatter of Creighton.

Bill was a member of the United Methodist Church of Marquette, and had served on the church’s pastor-parish relations committee. He also was chairman of the church board of trustees. He was also a member of the Mid-America Dairyman and the Lincoln Ski Club.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents.

Those who remain to cherish his memory are his parents; his fiancée, Sandra Hatter of Creighton; 2 brothers, Robert of Milford and Steven of Marquette; one sister Carolin Skordas of Jacksonville, Florida; aunts and uncles and cousins and friends.