Ann Robertson Young

Elizabeth Ann Robertson Young, 81, died peacefully in the early morning hours of the 29th of September, 2014, after a long bout with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Ann was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on June 3, 1933, to William H. Robertson and Mabel Ellen Morgan and was raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

She studied occupational therapy at the Texas State College for Women in Denton (now Texas Women’s University) and settled in Texas thereafter. She worked as an occupational therapist for many years at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, where she gave comfort to burn victims. Later she worked as a realtor and executive secretary. She also did volunteer work for the League of Women Voters and for AARP. She was an avid baseball fan and bought season tickets to Atros games during the past two decades. If the Astros were on the road and she was at home, the game was always playing on the radio in the kitchen. Ann was a classical music fan and loved the Houston Symphony. She read widely and generally disdained television in favor of books. She also loved to travel and visited many countries in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Ann is preceded by her husband, Errol Trent Young, and son, William Gregory Matlock, and survived by her brother, William H. Robertson, Jr., of Newnan, Georgia, her son, Robert Baylor Matlock, Jr., of Austin, and grandsons Aaron Keith Matlock of Houston, and Christopher Jacob and Matthew Jacob of Angleton.