----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 5/19/1976

GORDON ROBERTS

Funeral services for Gordon Roberts, 56, Greenwood, Clark County, will be held Thursday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. at the Rinka Funeral Home, Greenwood. Rev. David Wenger, pastor of our Savior's Lutheran Church, Greenwood, will officiate, with burial in the Loyal, Clark County Cemetery. Mr. Roberts was killed in and auto accident Sunday, May 16, 1976.

Gordon Roberts was born Sept. 19, 1919, at Abertillery, Wales. He came to Canada with his parents and later settled in the U.S. He lived in Michigan, Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin. He attended schools at Abertillery and in Canada and Michigan.

During World War II he served in the United States Navy.

He had worked as a tool and die maker in Ohio. Later he ran K-Korners Tavern and the Loyal Bowling Alley. In 1969, he moved to Florida, where he again worked as a tool and die maker, retiring to Greenwood about two and a half years ago. He worked for M E Development in the same profession. He was a member of the Loyal American Legion Post and Elks Club.

In June 1969 he was married to Betty Luzovec Kotcon.

Surviving are his wife, one daughter, Mrs. George (Karen) Brenner Jr., Loyal a son, Gordon Michael, Ringwood, N.J. two step-daughters, Lynn and Roberta Kotcon, both living at home, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Roberts, St. Petersburg, Fla. a brother, John of Hudson, Fla. a sister, Mrs. Vern (Audrey) Kennerly, Richmond Heights, Ohio and three grandchildren, Steven, Dean and George Brenner III of Loyal.

A stepson, Michael Kotcon was killed in the same auto accident.

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Obit: Roberts, Gordon #2 (1919 - 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Roberts, Kotcon, Luzovec, Brenner, Kennerly, Bolf, Wenger

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/20/1976

Roberts, Gordon (24 September 1919 - 16 May 1976) With Flag

Funeral services were being held this week in Greenwood for three area residents who were injured fatally in a collision between two cars on Highway 13, just north of Marshfield, about 7 p.m. Sunday.

Double services were to be held today (Thursday) at 10:30 a.m. from the Rinka Funeral Home for Gordon Roberts, 56, of Greenwood, and his step-son, Michael A. Kotcon, 24, of Willard. Kotcon died in the Marshfield hospital about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, two and one-half hours after the accident.

Still in critical condition with head injuries Tuesday morning was Mrs. Betty Roberts, 42, wife of Roberts and mother of Kotcon. She also suffered head injuries in the crash which saw the car driven by Mrs. Bolf broken into three sections by the impact.

Marathon County authorities reported that the car driven by Mrs. Bolf went out of control on the rain-slicked highway and skidded cross-wise of the pavement in front of the Roberts car. They attributed the accident to the slick condition of the highway surface and high speed. A motorist saw the Bolf car shortly before the accident, the officers reported, and estimated the speed of the car at from 80 to 90 miles per hour.

Roberts who was instantly killed, was pinned inside his car until firemen from Marshfield were able to cut his door open.

Roberts, his wife and step-son had left a Marshfield supper club but moments before the accident. They had dined there with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Arden Hinkelmann, of Neillsville, after attending an art showing of Mrs. Thompson’s works in Marshfield.

They were traveling to Greenwood to attend a baccalaureate service for Greenwood High School graduates that evening. Among the graduates is Lynn Ann Kotcon, a daughter of Mrs. Roberts.

At the joint services, this morning at the Rinka Funeral Home, the Rev. David Wenger of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, will conduct rites for Roberts. The Rev. Michael Mertens, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church of Willard, will be in charge of the rites for Kotcon. Burial for Roberts will be made in the Loyal Cemetery; for Kotcon in the Holy Family Cemetery at Willard.

Roberts, who is widely known in the Loyal, Greenwood and Neillsville areas, formerly owned and operated the K Corners Tavern north of Loyal, and at one time also owned and operated the Loyal Bowling Alley.

He was born September 24, 1919, in Abertillery, South Wales, to Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Roberts, who now live in St. Petersburg, Fl. He came w8ith his p0arents to Canada, then moved to Michigan before coming to Wisconsin. He was educated in Abertillery, Michigan and Canadian schools, and became a tool and die maker while working in Ohio.

He was a naval veteran of World War II, serving from March 22, 1944 until January 1, 1946. He was a member of the Loyal post of the American Legion, and of the Marshfield Elks Club.

In June 1969, he was married to the former Betty Luzovec of Willard and has been working at M&E Development Center for the last two years. He and Mrs. Roberts were building a house in Neillsville.

Surviving beside his wife and parents are a daughter, Mrs. George (Karen) Brenner, Jr., of Loyal; a son, Gordon Michael Roberts of Ridgewood, N.J.; two step-daughters, Lynn and Roberta Kotcon, both at home; a sister, Mrs. Vern (Audrey) Kennerly of Richmond Heights, Oh.; a brother, John T. Roberts of Hudson, Fl.; and three grandsons, Steven, Dean and George Brenner of Loyal.

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Obit: Roberts, Gordon #3 (1919 - 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Roberts, Kennerly, Thompson, Seeman, Walker, Brussow, Ashbeck, Wenger

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/03/1976

Roberts, Gordon (24 September 1919 – 16 May 1976) With Flag

Services for Gordon Roberts were held on May 20, with full military rites, by the Loyal American Legion Post, No. 175.

Pallbearers were Vern Kennerly, Dick Thompson, Bud Seeman, Dennis Walker, Steve Brussow and Roy Ashbeck. The Rev. Davin Wenger, pastor of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of Greenwood, conducted the services.