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More to the subject, here are some photos we put up for some of our cousins who couldn’t make it by the store today, as we conducted a brief little birthday reception for our Proprietor Emeritus, Fred Robertson, who turned 97 today. We don’t mean to overburden our shoppers with personal items, but we’re very blessed to have Fred and Gladys Robertson with us, since the other two founders of our business, our Uncle Carmack and Aunt Gertrude have gone on to their rewards. The birthday cake is set up on Uncle Fred’s showcase, in his middle designated section of the store, which has been relatively inactive while Aunt Gladys has been in very poor health for the past two years.
From Left:
(from left: Mrs. Kinga Sontowski, Aunt Gladys’s aide; Uncle Fred; District Attorney General James G. Woodall. General Woodall can personally attest that Uncle Fred is quite sharp.)
(Uncle Fred and Cousin Frank Bell, Trading Post Employee from 1960 to 1969, currently local State Farm Agent)
(Mrs.
Sontowski, who deserves great credit for both Aunt Gladys and their
great-grandson Percy doing as well as they are; Uncle Fred; General Woodall;
and Cousin Frank. Aunt Gladys is the retired Secretary of the McNairy County
Republican Party and former
Center – Mrs. Wanda Faulkner, Mother of our illustrious Vice-Mayor
Far left: Rev. Marian Sontowski; far right – Mr. Billy Wayne Faulkner, who keeps us in wheels, father of our Vice-Mayor and close friend to our family for years.
Uncle Fred and Aunt Gladys
Mrs. Wanda Faulkner and her son, our Illustrious Vice-Mayor Tim Faulkner, who also serves as our Consultant – and frequently Insult-ant, but in a good-natured way.
Faulkners and Uncle Fred
Rev. Robert Mullins from Leapwood, TN; and Uncle Fred, same birthday
Mr. Jerry
Julian from Finger,
From left: Mr.
Perry Holder, one of our most prolific Civil War Re-enactors; Cousin Rev. Eddie
Cupples, employee from 1971 – 1975; Aunt Gladys; Mrs.
Kinga; Rev. Sontowski; Rev. Mullins. Pentecostal, Methodist, and
Present Proprietor, Aunt Gladys, and Rev. Cupples – Aunt Gladys’s best-looking and best behaved nephew.
Tim, Mrs. Wanda, Aunt Gladys, and John – mothers and sons
Tim, Uncle Fred, John Paul, and Billy Wayne – fathers and sons
Uncle Fred and Billy Wayne, an old dog and a big dog
John Paul (with the High Standard Sentinel), Mrs. Betty Mullins, and Rev. Cupples (unarmed)
Mrs. Wanda, Mrs. Betty, Aunt Gladys, Mrs. Louise Wilson – four of the best cooks – and mothers - who ever lived.
L to R: Rev. & Mrs. Sontowski; Cousin Sgt. Terry Bell (employee 1975-78); Mrs. Betty Mullins; Aunt Gladys; Mrs. Wanda Faulkner; Vice-Mayor Tim Faulkner; Rev. Cupples, John Paul; Uncle Fred; Mrs. Louise; Rev. Robert Mullins; and Mr. Billy Wayne Faulkner (photo by Mr. John Cool, our favorite former North Dakotan and now Chester Countian)
Ms. Amanda Burgess, our Office Manager, third from left
L to R: Mr.
Jerry Julian, Finger, TN; Uncle Fred; Mr. Wyman Alexander,
Two of the three reasons we’re in business – Percy was at school today
Sontowskis not only are part of our family, we’re all consecutive neighbors, all next door to each other.
Uncle Fred and Aunt Gladys with retired Professor B.J.
Naylor, long time minister at the Estes and 
Professor Naylor and Uncle Fred
Uncle Fred and Cousin Judy Cooper Bell, a real pillar of our family and distinguished member of our current proprietor’s remarriage committee, with limited power of attorney sufficient to have our current proprietor committed to Western State Mental Health Institute should he decide to remarry without unanimous committee approval. Tim and Aunt Gladys are also on the committee.
Niece, Aunt and Uncle – all three invaluable
Firing up #97
Last Year Uncle Fred blew out 96 individual candles.
Discourse on
Civil War Era Stock Blanks from
L to R: John Paul Robertson, current Proprietor; Mr. Dennis Miller, former employee ca. 1973 – 1978, owner of West Tennessee Air Compressor Co.; Fred Robertson, co-founder & co-proprietor with Carmack Robertson 1952 – 1975; Gladys Robertson, licensee 1968 – 1975; Special Consultant Timothy Faulkner; Office Manager Amanda Burgess.
Photo by Ms. Amanda Burgess. Original Front Street wing –
right – by Raymond Johnson Construction Company, including Mr. Wylie and Mr.
Billy Wayne Benson, 1969. Gun art by Mr. Joe McCormick,
Fundraising for Hillary
Our Proprietor Emeritus with an inspiring momento from the 2008 Clinton Campaign.
$1800 Raised in One Day for the Hillary for
President Campaign by 97-year-old admirer.
Consequences of
Inspiration: Proprietor Emeritus and long time colleague Tony Burns with a
joint $1800 contribution to the Hillary for President Campaign in the form of a
Cashier’s Check that appeared out of the blue. “We have another $1400 Cashier’s
Check,” reports Uncle Fred, “that’s just as good as this one in Hillary’s Pot
also. Someone stole our Million Dollar Bill, and we’re trying to recover some
more money for Senator Clinton’s Campaign. If anyone has any $4.00 bills, $6.00
bills, $7.00 bills, or $9.00 bills, please send them. We have plenty of $3 and
$8 bills. Thank you for standing with me in support of Senator Clinton. Even if
you’re a Republican, please vote for Hillary. I’m afraid her husband will leave
her if she loses, and we don’t want that. We also want an interesting and
spirited Democratic nomination process.”