Dates
Leora Nell was born on September 22, 1938 in Coke County to Buster and Vera Burson. She passed away on April 25, 2015 in Robert Lee Care Center. Visitation will be held all day Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the funeral home with family present 6-8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, May 1, 2015 at Robert Lee Baptist Church with interment to follow in Robert Lee Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Shaffer Funeral Home/Robert Lee.
Nell started school in Green Mountain when she was five years old and graduated from Robert Lee High School in 1956. After graduation she attended Angelo State.
Nell married James Maurice Robertson on August 30, 1957 in
San Angelo. To this union was born a daughter, Leora Kathleen Robertson and a son, James “Jim” Maurice Robertson, Jr.
In 1966, she followed her husband into the ministry with Emmanuel Pentecostal Church here in Robert Lee being their first pastorate. They also pastored in Portales, New Mexico, North Platte, Nebraska, Kerrville, Texas and Brownfield, Texas with two of the churches being “Home Mission” works! While in North Platte, Nebraska she served on the Ladies Ministries Board of the United Pentecostal Church International. They retired from the ministry while in Brownfield, Texas on December 27, 2014.
Nell was preceded in death by her father, Buster Burson, her mother, Vera Burson and her mother and father in laws, J.B. and Samantha Robertson.
She is survived by her husband Reverend James M. Robertson, Sr.; her daughter, Kathleen Robertson and friend Frank Sparks; her son, and daughter-in-law, Jim and Latitia Robertson, missionaries to Warsaw, Poland; four granddaughters, Chv’ana Robertson, Kaylah and Justin McGee, Tessa Robertson and Kandra and Marcus Elzely; and one great granddaughter, Emellia Kate all of Cooper City, Florida. Also surviving is her sister, Betty Beaver; two brothers and sister-in-law Bub and Sissy Burson, Jerry Burson, her sister-in-law Leta Aldridge, brothers and sisters-in-laws, Harold and Mary Robertson, Doug and Peggy Robertson and Doyle and Sandy Robertson. She also has several nieces, nephews and cousins.