LISTER, Robert Leroy - L-Obituaries

ATTICA - Robert Leroy Lister, age 43, of 209 West Monroe St., Attica, died at the Community Hospital in Williamsport at 9:10 a.m. Friday, March 13. He had been a patient there since Thursday, March 12. He had been hospitalized there one week prior to this and was dismissed on Wednesday, being admitted again on Thursday. Mr. Lister was born in Attica Sept. 20, 1926, the son of Charles William and Zelma Jenkins Lister. He was a life resident of Attica. He had been employed in Veedersburg at the Fountain Foundry for six weeks. Prior to this, he had worked at Purdue University in maintenance for 15 years. He also had worked at the IGA and Grab-It-Here stores in Attica. He attended the Nazarene Church here. He was married Aug. 9, 1947, to Clara Mae Young, who survives. Surviving, in addition to the wife, are: his mother, Mrs. Zelma Lister of Attica; one son, Robert Lynn Lister of Attica; three daughters, Mary Glynalin Lister of Attica, Mrs. Dianna K. Gosnell of Attica and Jacqualine Lee Lister of Williamsport; four brothers, Ernest of Benton Harbor, Mich., Wilbur R. of Attica, Lurane of Lafayette and Everett of Williamsport; four sisters, Mrs. Harley Butler, Mrs. Herbert Rice and Mrs. Roger Ingram, all of Attica, and Mrs. Clyde Knipe of Williamsport, and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the DeSutter Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. A. L. Taylor officiated and burial was in Riverside Cemetery, in Attica. - jlr