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      Rita Alma (St.Cyr) Robertson, 75

PLAISTOW, NH

Rita Alma (St.Cyr) Robertson, 75, of Plaistow, formerly of Haverhill, died Monday, March 1, at the Exeter Hospital, after a lengthy illness.                                                             

Born in Haverhill, she was the daughter of the late Joseph F. St.Cyr and Alina Y. (Fournier). She was a graduate of St. Joseph Grammar School and attended Haverhill High School.                                                                                                                                                

A devout wife, mother, and grandmother, Mrs. Robertson began her career employed in the local shoe industry. She also worked for Woolworth’s and J.M. Field’s Department Stores in Haverhill. For the last twenty years she was a code and edit clerk for the I.R.S. in North Andover, retiring in July of 2009. Mrs. Robertson enjoyed nothing more than spending her spare time with her children, grandchildren, and siblings.                                                                                        

The widow of Robert H. Robertson Sr, who died in 2003, she leaves her children and their spouses, Robert H. Jr, and his wife, Dana L. Robertson, of South Riding, VA, Glenn S. and his wife, Cheryl A. (Bourdelais) Robertson, of Effingham, NH, and Jodi A. Oliver and her husband Timothy W., of Brentwood, NH, twelve grandchildren, Emily, Sarah, Benjamin, Thomas, and Chloe Oliver, Jennifer and Haley Robertson, Nicholas, Sean and Cody Jones, and Shelby and Dawn-Marie Saleski, two brothers, Richard W. St.Cyr, of Vancouver, WA, and Arthur R. and his wife Helen, of Haverhill, two sisters, Adele I. Tragiou, of Epping, Theresa M. Campbell, of Merrimac, and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her siblings, Phyllis L. Royce, Yvonne D. St.Cyr, Marie A. Lowther, Joseph O. St.Cyr, and Robert R. St. Cyr.                 

Friends and family are respectfully invited to call, on Thursday, March 4, from 6 until 8:00 PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main St. (Rte 125) Haverhill. Funeral services will be held in the funeral home on Friday at 10:00 AM. Burial will follow in Plaistow Cemetery, Elm St. Plaistow, NH. Memorial donations may be made to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline Place West, 6th floor, Brookline, MA 02445-7226.

Directions to Kevin Comeau Funeral Home