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- Homer was a police officer in Detroit.
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- World War II draft registration card:
Name: Homer Charles Robinson
Race: White
Age: 39
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1902
Birth Place: Indianola, Illinois
Residence Place: Hamilton, Butler, Ohio
Registration Date: 15 Feb 1942
Registration Place: Hamilton, Ohio
Employer: U.S. Army Engineers, Patterson Field
Height: 5ft 10"
Weight: 185
Complexion: Dark
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Mr. John Robinson
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- Marriage License
Homer Robinson, 24, steam fitter, and Alice Cole, 22, both of Hamilton. Squire Peter Mesial.
The Journal News, Saturday, Hamilton, Ohio. 6 September 1924, page 17.
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- Homer Robinson succumbs at 55
Homer C. Robinson, 55, 320 Race St., died at 9 p.m. Friday in Mercy Hospital where he had been a patient for one week. Mr. Robinson had been in ill health for four years and hospitalized several times during that period.
Born in Indianola, Ill., on Oct. 1, 1902, the oldest son of John and Caroline Moore Robinson, he spent his early youth in that community and was educated in Illinois public schools.
He moved with his family to Hamilton in 1918, and was employed as an apprentice pipefitter at the Ford Motor Co. Completing his apprenticeship, Mr. Robinson worked as a pipefitter for various construction firms and traveled throughout the country. He was one of the oldest members of Local 108, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentice Plumbers and Pipefitters, and was active in the affairs of that organization.
On June 25, 1951, he married Myrtle Melvin Smith in the First Christian Church, Louisville, Ky., and the couple immediately established their home in Hamilton.
He leaves his wife, a daughter by a previous marriage, Mrs. Betty Smith, Tucson, Ariz.; a grandson, a granddaughter, his parents, John Robinson and Mrs. Caroline Robinson; two brothers, Harley Robinson, Dayton, and Herman Robinson, Hamilton; two sisters, Mrs. Eva Hedges, Sidell, Ill., and Miss Ida Robinson, Louisville, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the Colligan Funeral Home, 437 S. Third St., with the Rev. W.A. Fox, pastor of the New Zion Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Sunday.
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- Last rites held for Homer Robinson
Pallbearers for the funeral of Homer C. Robinson, 55, 320 Race St., who died Friday, were John Spath, Roy Frazier, Fred Williams, Jack Robinson, Robert Woebkenberg and Stanley Fannin.
Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon in the Michael J. Colligan Funeral Home, 437 S. Third St., the Rev. W.A. Fox, pastor of the New Zion Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
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