Submitted by: Dan Rich
Sept. 27, 1895 – Jan. 01, 1961
South Bend Tribune 1/2/1961
Mishawaka - Cecil B. Robbins, 65, of West Lawrence St., who moved here in 1916 from Nevada Mills, Ind., was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph Hospital at 2:15 a.m. Sunday. He had been in failing health for six years.
Robbins had been employed at the Ball-Band plant for 40 years and retired from the plant’s fire department in 1955 because of disability.
He was born in Nevada Mills and was married June 29, 1917 to Tillie Henigsmith in Mishawaka. She died Aug. 28, 1954.
Surviving are his daughter, Mrs. Norman L. Burk, with whom he lived; a brother Burdette W. Robbins of South Bend, and a grandson Mark Everett Burk.
Friends may call at the Bubb Chapel after 7 p.m. today until the services there at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Rev. Wilbur C. Wilson, pastor of First Evangelical United Brethren Church will officiate and burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.
Editor: On June 30, 1917 in St. Monica's Catholic Church, Mishawaka, he married Mathilda Cecelia Henigsmith. The proper spelling of his daughter and grandson’s name is Burke.