EUGENE ROBERT

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Eugene P. Robert, Scott City Route 2, was held Friday at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso. The Rev. Oliver Clavin officiated, with burial in the church cemetery.

Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City was in charge of arrangements.

Robert, 90, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1998, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Feb. 14, 1907, at Kelso, son of Charles and Ida Hohman Robert. He and Irene Clara Schlosser were married April 24, 1935, at Kelso. She died Jan. 23, 1990.

Robert was a self-employed farmer. He had also served as deputy sheriff and as constable in Scott County. He was a member of St. Augustine Church.

Survivors include a son, Wade Robert of Kelso; a daughter, Dottie Bruce of Sikeston; two brothers, Charles and Pius Robert of Kelso; a granddaughter; three great-grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren, and a great-stepgrandchild.

He was preceded in death by six brothers and a sister.