William T. ROBERTSON Jr.

HAMPTON - William T. Robertson Jr. , 96, died peacefully Saturday morning Sept. 25, 2010, with his wife, Jac and family around his bedside.
He was born April 10, 1914, in Petersburg, Va., where he spent his youth. He received a full football scholarship from Petersburg High to the University of Richmond. While there he lettered not only in football but basketball, baseball and golf as well. He quarterbacked and played guard for the only undefeated football and basketball teams in the history of the University of Richmond to date.
He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Upon graduation he went on to teach and coach at Beaumont School for Boys where he met and married his wife and soul mate, Jacqueline Clark. After their first summer together, where he was a lifeguard at Virginia Beach, he went on to coaching positions at Miller School for Boys and Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va.
At the onset of WWII he entered service first as a Red Cross Field Director for the 113th Airborne Division. He later became a Naval Aircraft Gunnery Officer aboard Merchant Marine ships in the Pacific Theater. Bills final naval assignment was on the faculty of Villanova University, Pa., as Physical Fitness Director of the N.R.O.T.C program.
After the war Bill went back to Randolph Macon, coaching there a total of seven years. He left there in 1950 and moved his family to Morganton, N.C., where he was the City Recreational Director for nine years.
Upon leaving Morganton his 20 years of Civil Service began as a Recreational Director in Naples, Italy; Gtmo Bay, Cuba; Hahn AFB, Germany; Bentwaters RAF, England; Moody AFB, Georgia, before coming to settle in Hampton, Va., in 1959, where he worked at Langley AFB until he retired in 1977.
Bill was a very active senior golfer. He won numerous Peninsula, Tidewater and regional tournaments. He won the Virginia State Seniors Golf Championship in 1980 and again in 1983, making him the oldest Virginia State Senior Golf Champion at the age of 69.
He also won the Eastern States Seniors Championship at Kingsmill, Va., in 1981 and the American Golf Association Seniors at Calloway Gardens, Ga., in 1980.
Besides Bill's passion for golf, he also loved gardening, swimming and reading. Before he became infirm he could be seen daily walking and biking the streets of Olde Wythe.
A dear family friend and neighbor recently commented that he never heard Bill say an unkind word about anyone. He was a man who always wanted to help others.
Bill's survivors include, his wife, Jac of 70 years; son, Robbie and wife, Patty; daughters, Lynn and husband, Arnie, Mimi and husband, Blair; and grandchildren, Jimmy, Erin, Ganon, Jonathan and Cole; as well as two great-grandchildren, Jackson and Reed; his brothers, Tom and Donald and his wife, Grace; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, neighbors and golfing buddies to cherish his memory.
Bill and Jac Robertson were longtime members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newport News and are currently members of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hampton. His memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, at St. Johns, 100 West Queens Way.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Old Hampton Community Center, 201 Lincoln St., Hampton, Va., 23669. View and post condolences on our online guestbook at dailypress.com/guestbooks.