Rev. Ernest Robertson

Funeral services for the Rev. Ernest L. Robertson, age 97 of Cookeville will be held Saturday APRIL 23 at 11 am at Cookeville First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Michael McLaughlin officiating. Interment, with military honors, will follow in Cookeville City Cemetery. His family will receive friends Friday from 5 pm till 7 pm at Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home and Saturday from 10 am until service time at the church. He died Sunday morning April 10, 2022 in the Woodlands Assisted Living in Leesville, Louisiana Rev. Robertson was born Friday December 19, 1924 in Auburn, Nebraska to the late Donald and Neva Kite Robertson. Following his honorable discharge from the Army he completed his schooling at Park College, a Presbyterian college near Kansas City, Missouri, and at McCormick Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He served as pastor of churches in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. He served as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church more than 25 years. He served many years as Teaching Pastor for Pittsburgh Theological Seminary students. After retirement he served as an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church fourteen years and seventeen years as hospital Chaplin at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. He married Lucille Bockman Robertson May 23, 1948, in the First Presbyterian Church in Cookeville. In addition to his wife, his family includes a son and daughter-in-law, David L. and Neda Helms Robertson of Hornbeck, Louisiana, niece, Wanda Livesay Jared of Cookeville, great nieces and nephews, great great nieces and nephews, 3-great great great nephews, and several cousins. Honorary Pallbearers will Pastors and Elders who attend the service. Active Pallbearers will be family and friends. Memorial contributions may be may to: Roe Bockman Endowed Housing Scholarship at tntech.edu/giving. Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arranges. (930 52606111, You may share your thoughts and memories at www.hhhfunerals.com.