Billy Robinson

76 year old Brother Billy Robinson died Monday. The funeral will be Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at Sellars Funeral Home in Lebanon. Chris Dickens and Gordon Lee will officiate and burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. The family will be receive friends at the funeral home from 2-8 p.m. on Tuesday and from 11 a.m. until the service on Wednesday. Robinson was a graduate of Watertown High School and he 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 his wife of fifty-five and a half years, Robbie Cope Robinson; daughter: Jan Robinson Barwin; granddaughter: Reca Danielle Barwin; sisters-in-law: Opal and her husband Dean Pirtle, Nina and husband Jimmy Gentry, and Linda and husband Edward Calvert; brothers-in-law: Aaron and wife 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. Sellars Funeral Home in Lebanon is in charge of the arrangements. This information provided as a courtesy of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home.