DEXTER -- Mary Grace Robinson, 85, died Saturday, July 20, 1996, at Central Gardens Residential Care Center in Dexter.
She was born April 21, 1911, at Mountain Glen, Ark., daughter of the late Bert T. and Mary E. Morgan Carter. She married Dee B. Robinson on June 6, 1928, in Knobel, Ark. He died Aug. 15, 1994.
She had lived in Dexter for many years and was a homemaker and member of the First Baptist Church in Dexter.
She is survived by two sons, Carter of Cullman, Ala., and Jim of Dexter; three daughters, Mary Ellen Blankenship and Ann Smyth, both of Dexter, and June Horton of Baton Rouge, La.; a brother, Harold Carter of Poplar Bluff; four sisters, Dorothy Baugh, Helen Jones and Eleanor Booker, all of Poplar Bluff, and Alicia Rhea of Payson, Ariz.; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great grandchild.
She was preceded in death by a son, two brothers and two sisters.
Visitation will be Monday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will be at 2:30 Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Mike Watkins officiating. Burial will be in the Dexter Cemetery.
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