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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., November 3, 1994, page 12

LEROY ROBINSON

LeRoy Benjamin Robinson, a longtime White Salmon resident, died Oct. 22, 1994, in Poulsbo, at the age of 77.
Mr. Robinson was born Oct. 17, 1917, in Frazee, Minn., to David C. and Elizabeth Robinson. He was raised and attended school in Frazee.
He entered the Army Sept. 12, 1941, serving in the Pacific Theater as a gunner on the President Coolidge, which carried troops from San Francisco to Australia, New Zealand and the Fiji Islands. He also served in the European Theater in France, Belgium and Germany. He was discharged in November 1945.
He returned to Frazee, where he married Helen Trieglaff in 1947. They came to White Salmon that same year, where they resided since. He was employed at Star Fruit Company in Bingen, Washington Canners in Vancouver, and Diamond Fruit Growers in Hood River, from which he retired in 1979.
Mr. Robinson was a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church, AAL and Teamsters Local 670. He was an avid gardener and loved working in his yard.
Mr. Robinson is survived by his wife, Helen, White Salmon; daughter, Susan, Port Orchard; son, Kenneth, Port Orchard; son and daughter-in-law, Gregory and Jill, Silverdale; granddaughter, Jamie Robinson, Port Orchard; sisters Luella Steffen, Tacoma; Verona Wiess, Mabel Mortensen, and Lenora Harmsen, all of Salem, Ore., Elva Wirth, Loveland, Colo., and Dorothy Kelly, Salt Lake City, Utah; and brothers John, Minneapolis, Minn., and Arthur, Mahama, Ore.
Services for Mr. Robinson were held Oct. 29, 1994 at 11 a.m. at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Bingen, with Pastor Keith Wellman officiating. Interment was by cremation with burial in Klickitat County Cemetery No. 1.