Booker T. Robinson Jr.

Published 5:00 am Thursday, August 4, 2005

Services for Booker T. Robinson Jr. of Brookhaven are 2 p.m.,Saturday, Aug. 6, at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 7 p.m., at Tyler FuneralHome, with family present at 6 p.m.

Mr. Robinson, 56, died July 30, 2005, at his residence. He wasborn on Aug. 9, 1948, to Booker T. Robinson Sr. and RemellMarcellous Robinson.

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He was a retired educator for the Pike County School System. Hetaught at Eva Gordon Elementary School in Magnolia. He was a memberof St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. He was a graduate ofAlexander High School and Jackson State University.

Preceding him in death were his parents; a brother, Ralph JerryRobinson; and a nephew.

Survivors are his brothers, James Louis Robinson and MorrisRobinson, both of Brookhaven; and his sisters, Betty Gilbert ofDetroit, Mich., Garnell Smith, Ruby Nelson, and Nellie Jones, allof Brookhaven.