ORA ROBINSON

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Ora Loueen Robinson will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ponder Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mounds Park Cemetery at Lilbourn, Mo.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today.

Robinson, 82, died Wednesday, July 26, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born Aug. 1, 1917, in St. Louis, daughter of Ernest and Iva Simpson Wheeler.

Robinson had worked at Rold Gold Pretzel in St. Louis, and later was an assistant beautician for Pat Schaffer in Lilbourn. She attended First Baptist Church in Lilbourn.

Survivors include four sons, Kenneth Robinson of Naylor, Mo., Daniel and Scott Robinson of Sikeston, John Robinson of Lilbourn; two brothers, Norman Wheeler of St. Louis, David Wheeler of Oklahoma City, Okla.; two sisters, Gladys Halprin of Omaha, Neb., Coleen Wheeler of Marlboro, Mass.; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and 10 stepgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, four brothers, and a sister.