Juanita Faye Lawson Robertson passed away Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at Wesley Manor Nursing Home in Dothan, Alabama. Mrs. Robertson was born on June 16, 1931 at home in rural Walker County, and lived most of her adult life in Birmingham, Alabama, except for a few years where she lived in Dothan, Alabama and Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Mrs. Robertson graduated from Oakman High School in Oakman, Alabama and briefly attended Athens College where she was a cheerleader. Shortly after leaving college, she was employed by the Alabama Gas Company in Birmingham, Alabama. She married Jay Robertson of Birmingham on October 24, 1952. After raising three children, she went back to school at Wallace Community College in Dothan, Alabama and became a Licensed Practical Nurse. She worked in various doctor offices and nursing homes in Dothan, Alabama and Birmingham, Alabama.
Faye was preceded in death by her husband, Jay Robertson; her parents Elsie Patton Lawson and Gustav Lawson of Oakman, Alabama, six siblings, and one granddaughter, Cana Marie Lambert, of Monroeville, Alabama. She is survived by her children, Jay Michael Robertson and wife Ann of Birmingham, Alabama, Anne Robertson Lambert and husband Jim of Monroeville, Alabama and Cheryl Robertson Ivy of Headland, Alabama. She is also survived by two grandsons-Jayme Lambert and wife Stephanie of Hoover, Alabama and Jason Hughes of Dothan, Alabama and four great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be a graveside service held Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 2:00 PM at Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham. There will be no visitation.
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