Loyce Robertson

Dateline: McKenzie, TN

Funeral Services for Loyce Robertson are 12:00 p.m., Saturday, July 24, 2021 at Brummitt McKenzie Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 10:00 a.m. until service time. Interment is at Henry Cemetery. Please dress casually. Mask will be required and will be provided if needed.

Loyce Robertson went to her heavenly home to be with Jesus on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Conway, AR. Where she had lived for the past two years. She was born on December 2, 1933 to Doll and Alvie Arnold in Noah’s Fork, TN.  

She was married to Joe Robertson in Corinth, MS on March 5, 1954. They moved back to Henry, TN where they lived, worked and farmed. Mrs. Robertson went back to school in 1968, and became a LPN. She worked for many years at Henry County Medical Center and Eastwood Clinic in, Paris, TN before becoming the office nurse for Dr. Vince Tusa at the Paris Clinic. She retired from nursing in 1978 and spent her spare time working on the farm with Joe and putting up vegetables from their 1 acre garden. She loved to cook, especially desserts and filled her freezer with cakes, cookies and pies for anyone who dropped by to visit or work.

In 1998, when they both fully retired they moved to McKenzie, TN. They were members of Henry Church of Christ and later transferred their membership to McKenzie Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 60 years Joe passed away in 2014, six siblings’ Basil Arnold, Sadie Houston, Betty Morton, Frank Arnold, Shirley Arnold and Herschell Arnold, two nieces Debbie Adams and Charlotte Akers , three nephews Kurt Houston, Thomas Morton and Michael Arnold and one grandson Joseph Charles Marshall.

She is survived by her daughters Gail (Tosh) Temple and Betty Jo (Charlie) Marshall of South Carolina and Cindy ( Chris) Lichtenwalter of Arkansas, six grandchildren Matt, Jonathan, Jay, Hannah, Callan and Connor and seven great grandchildren Brandon, Hailey, Milla, Charlotte, Lucy, Rosaline and Joseph with the eighth to arrive in October. She is also survived by her sister in law Fay Hicks and several nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to the McKenzie church of Christ Benevolence Fund or St. Jude’s Hospital.