Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1961 - Rparchives.org

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 147
1957-58 his wife had a heart attack, and he was in poor health.
But they wrote: "We feel our weaknesses have been blessed to
us all, for we have experienced so much of love and anxiety of
our people, and they have been putting forth more effort." Mr.
Ward often said that the years at the Mission were their happiest
years.
In the spring of 1958 they celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary in the place where they had been married fifty years
before. At eighty-six he was the oldest ministet active in the
pastorate in our Church. That fall they retired, and moved to
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in October. There he passed from
this life August 10, I960. He had served his own generation by
the will of God, and now he fell asleep.
His wife, the three children named, seven grandchildren and
one sister, Mrs. Charles Haslett, of Wilkinsburg are the family
which remain.
MEMOIR OF
J. B. Willson
REV. J. K. ROBB, D.D.
Our ranks on earth again have been thinned with the passing
of the oldest minister in our denomination to the Assembly of
the Redeemed in Heaven.
John Knox Robb, son of James Kerr and Margaret Scott Robb
was born at New Concord, Ohio, the youngest of six children, on
August 13, 1868, and was called to his eternal home almost 93
years later, at Baroda, Michigan, on October 30, I960.
Quite early in life his family moved to Denison, Kansas,
where, at the age of 17, he united with the Reformed Presbyterian
Church, called at that time North Cedar. His schooling was
continued at Muskingum, and then at Geneva, where he was graduated
on May 30, 1895- The same year he entered the Reformed
Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
and finished the course of instruction on December 22, 1898.
On October 19, 1900, Mr- Robb was united in marriage with
Miss Maude Lawson, who, through the years was a faithful companion
and helper in the Lord's work, both at home and abroad.
To this union four children were born: Neal L., who passed away
in 1934, and David M., Joseph S-, and Margaret, who survive
their parents.
Mr. Robb was licensed to preach by Pittsburgh Presbytery
on December 20, 1897, and was ordained to the Gospel Ministry,
and installed pastor of the La Junta, Colorado congregation by
Colorado Presbytery on November 9, 1900.
Answering the call to Foreign Mission service, he resigned