Obituary of Billy J Robinson

Brother Billy Robinson passed away on August 15, 2011 at age 76. The family will be receiving friends at Sellars Funeral Home in Lebanon from 2-8 p.m. on Tuesday and from 11 a.m. until the service on Wednesday. The chapel service, conducted by Brother Chris Dickens and Brother Gordon Lee, is 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers: nephews Mike Richardson, Joey Reeder, and Thomas Cope, brother-in-law Darrell Dean, and close family friends John Daniel Alsup, Tyler Davis, and David Rigsby. Honorary Pallbearer: Sonny Thompson. Brother Robinson was a graduate of Watertown High School and attended Tennessee Technological University. He was a retired Baptist minister who began preaching at age 19. During his 55 years of ministry, he pastored the following churches: Mt. Herman Baptist Church, Upper Helton Baptist Church, Pleasant View Baptist Church, Forrest Park Baptist Church, Welchland Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Church, and Friendship Baptist Church. He was also retired from Sherwin-Williams and the City of Lebanon Water Department and was actively involved in the City of Lebanon retiree group. Survivors include wife of fifty-five and a half years, Robbie Cope Robinson; daughter: Jan Robinson Barwin; granddaughter: Reca Danielle Barwin; sisters-in-law: Opal (Dean) Pirtle, Nina (Jimmy) Gentry, and Linda (Edward) Calvert; brothers-in-law: Aaron (Joyce) Cope and Darrell Dean; and numerous nieces and nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews. He is preceded in death by parents Arthur and Martha Murphy Robinson.