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1930
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2025
Arlene Robertson Obituary
May 16, 1930 – August 8, 2025
Arlenes parents were Robert and Lottie Lindenburger of Park Ridge, Illinois. Arlene was educated in Illinois, New York, Florida and California. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and met her husband, Donald Robertson, there. They settled in the East Bay and started their family.
In 1959, Dons engineering career moved them all to Jamshedpur, India. Arlene had two more children in India, for a total of five. After three years in India and two months traveling through the Middle East and Europe, the family returned to California, settling in Piedmont.
Another overseas job called them to Melbourne, Australia in 1969, where they lived for two years, and returned to Piedmont.
As the children grew up and moved out, Arlene transitioned from homemaker to working in retail sales, real estate, civil service, volunteering, and teaching knitting and quilting. In 1994, Arlene and Don retired and moved to the Grass Valley/Nevada City Area, soon becoming involved in local clubs and organizations. They continued their love of travel, visiting many countries, including Mexico, Iceland, England, Scotland, Spain, Korea, China, Japan, Panama, Guatemala and others. Arlene was a voracious reader and lifelong learner.
She was preceded in death by her brother Robert Lindenburger, husband Donald Robertson, daughter Margaret and grandson Daniel. She is survived by sons William (Linda), Peter (Eren) and Mathew, daughter Susan, granddaughter Rosemary Gagne and great-grandson Stephen Gagne.
We will miss her kindness, generosity, intelligence and sense of humor. The family plans a memorial gathering in November.
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