TY ROBINSON 1916-2018

Ty Robinson joined Rotary in August 1949.  He was a Paul Harris Fellow and club president in 1952-53.   Donations can be made to the Missoula Rotary Foundation in Memory of Ty's great work with Rotary for 69 years.   Below is a copy of the obituary posted in the Missoulian. 

MISSOULA — Long time Missoula attorney, Robert H. “Ty” Robinson, 102, of Missoula, was called into the loving arms of his Savior, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, at the Community Medical Center with his son John and his daughter in law Anita at his side. He was born January 25, 1916 in Columbia Falls, the son of Calvin and Berta Ella Green Robinson. He graduated from Flathead County High School in 1933, serving as the senior class president and captain of the 1933 Flathead Braves Basketball Team. In 1940, he received a BA degree from the U of M where he played on the 1937-1939 basketball teams and was active in campus life.

He married Jean E. Fritz on Nov. 23, 1939 and raised two sons, John and Laird. He served in the U.S. Border Patrol and in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theatre, before returning to the U of M where he received a juris doctorate degree in 1948. That year, he began his legal career as in-house counsel for the Missoula Merc. In 1954, he joined Jim Garlington and Sherman Lohn in forming the present law firm of Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, from which he retired in 1987 to become “Of Counsel”.