Elmo J. Robison
contributed by Clarence Robison

Heart Attack is Fatal to Elmo Robison
Hugo Daily News April 18, 1960

     Elmo J. Robison, Choctaw county assessor for nearly four years, and a candidate for re-election, died unexpectedly about 8:30 p.m. Saturday at his home. Death was attributed to a heart attack.
     A native of Choctaw county where he had lived all his life, Robison was born Oct. 18, 1907, at Nelson and moved with his parents at an early age to the Bearden Springs community southeast of the city. He lived in that community until 1956 when he was elected to his first term as assessor. Since that time he had lived in Hugo.
     For six and one-half years, he operated a grade A dairy southeast of town.
     He was a member of the Jackson Street Church of Christ and only recently had been teaching at a church at Rattan.
     Surviving are his wife, Lucille; three sons, Clarence Wayne, at the home. Elmo Jr., St. Louis, Mo., Rance Henry Robison, Howard, Kansas; one daughter, Miss Jean Robison, stationed with the WAVES at Jacksonville, Florida; and several grandchildren.
     He also leaves three brothers, George, south of town. Homer, at Grant, Charles, in California; and three sisters, Miss Myrtle Robison and Mrs. Fred Sanders both of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mrs. Fred Fawcus, Kermit, Texas.
     Services have been arranged for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Church of Christ, Dillard Sarrett will be assisted in the rites by James Bays, Ponca City, former minister of the local church. Coffey Funeral Home will make burial in Mt. Olivet cemetery.