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Thursday, December It, 1980 ADDRESS MI FUNERAL OF JOHN ROBERTSON Talk by Rev. Frank Fitt at Serv. ices Nov. 19 for Beloved Ravinia Resident Following is the address of the ll Rev. Frank Fitt at the funeral serv- J ices for John Robertson, " Highland t Park Presbyterian church, Nov. 9, a 1930. Mr. Robertson was greatly be. I loved by everybody in Ravinia, and his friends will appreciate the publi- ' cation of this talk by Mr. Pitt, it is believed. The address: John Robertson Born, Sanifshire, Scotland, June 21, 1844. Son of James Robertson and Elizabeth Dawson Robertson. Came to Chicago in 1870. Married Christina Mitchell in Chicago. Four children: William, who died in in- fancy, David Allan Robertson, Eliz- abeth Wells Robertson, John Bright Robertson. Four grandchildren: Da- vid, Betty, John, Jane. Lived in Chi. cago on west aide until coming to Ravinia six years ago. Former mem- ber Third Presbyterian church. It was about six years ago that I met Mr. Robertson, After long resi- dence in Chicago he had built this home in Ravinia and soon after his arrival, true to his family tradition and his own convictions, he identified himself with the local parish, trans-‘ ferring his letter of membership from the Third Presbyterian church, Chi- cago. in April, 1926. It was my pri- vilege, therefore, to know him from his eighthieth to his eighty-sixth year. Even at that advanced age, a time of life which so few attain, he carried within himself the central phases of his personality in such a rich and glowing sense that for all of us who became his friends in this new environment he remains a most memorable figure. Tracing out the meaning of Mr. Roberuon's friendship in my own life I find three distinct impressions. First of all he possessed a rare and fragrant sweetness of disposition. In him there was nothing of the quer- ulousness usually associated with ad- vanced age. On my visits to his home, on occasions when his physical limitations permitted him to attend church, and at other times when' I saw him he always refteeted a warmth and friendliness that bespoke his I trust in life as an experience in which kindness and charity should be the guiding signs. He had nothing of the demanding and the hurrying about him. His outlook was serene and one could always be sure of his smile and his welcome. Even when the last weeks of his life brought in- creasing evidence of physical irttir. mity there was no complaint. To the last the even balance of his na- ture, the outcome of his teonfidence in life's invisible values, it was his gift to possess.‘ _ _ . . "goiieivut akin to this, and yetl quite diatjngtly indeendent.ot. it, PP I “my: uranium; '""'e'"""'""." -, V.-- a very definite resiliency of spirit. Just before coming to live in Ravinia he hud known the great sorrow of ') losing the partner who had been with l him for " years. He and Ihe were looking forward to the new home;] but he entered it without her. fre ing " Inch I period in life that loss) is almost shattering. It left its .mlrk; upon him; but he went forward with, courage. There was on orei.onall reference, on expression of dietr-i pointment thlt she could not lt the joys of the new crestion of love and thought in Ravinia', but there was no sense of defeat end the out- look was always forward, At 80 most of us on not ready to change our abode and form new friendships and enter new circles. He wu; Ind did so with Beat Ind interest and en- joyment. In the winter months he traveled on long journeys to Texas and California and found something rewarding in there ventures. He , " The Refrigerator with the money-saving Mmsitor Te-What I #tteimts gipprl-ttoreeei-mdhotv"'re-r-f'r""" tergim. he General Electric Compmy has this glistening white WWI“ - nude it euy for you to make this the burden of her My taau-aitstrilfr Christina the metrics: of all. 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Home Wu the sacred place. the nurturing ground of virtue and power where the endur- ing values and their Iource. To " home he (Ive utteeasiritrly of bin but and found his heppineu in " chil- dren, their work, their program their contribution to life. We exchanged Motown-mu letter! when he we: on " who" vmtioninc in Mount plane or who I happened to be “I” from homo. More than once I had the " at writing him e letter of countab- tion when I member of " “all, had received recognition tor worthy aehievement. l knew the hopping-- thnt woo in hie heart. And In the cloning veer- Ipod by he halved the richeet blot-inc that enyone out ro- 'eeive, the devotion of thou who had known him no a {other who had never foiled them and whom they would 1 (Continued on page 89) Telephone H. P. 3800 ff