Alma Aldinger Robertson

Alma Aldinger Robertson, 97, went to be with her Lord and Savior on August 29 at Brookdale Senior Living in Central.

She was one of thirteen children born on a farm in Bowdle, South Dakota to Rudolph and Ida Haar Aldinger in 1921. After her mother's death in 1929 she went to live in Tolstoy, SD with foster parents, John and Christina Stotz. At age 15 Alma was saved at the United Methodist Church in Tolstoy and had a call to the mission field. After attending Miltonvale Wesleyan College she earned her RN degree from the Methodist State Hospital and served as the night supervisor for 17 years before going to Sierra Leone, West Africa.

After returning home she met her future husband, Eugene David Robertson, and they were married in 1969. After his death in 1976, Alma decided to return to Sierra Leone and served another four- year term as a missionary nurse. Upon retirement from the mission field she entered a foster care program and had the wonderful privilege of fostering a nine- year old Native American child who could neither speak nor see. She also took in two adults during this time of her life.
In 1989, at the urging of several missionary friends with whom she served with in Africa, she decided to move to Central, South Carolina. Now the snow and bitter cold of South Dakota was only in her memory as she established herself in the fellowship of Trinity Wesleyan Church.

Besides her parents, husband and twelve siblings she was predeceased by her step-son, Donald Robertson. She was the last remaining survivor of her immediate family. She leaves behind a host of nieces and nephews and a special nephew, Timothy Aldinger and his wife Elaine, who was so generous in seeing to all her needs.

Funeral services will be Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 4 pm in the chapel of Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home in Central. Receiving friends will be at 3:00 pm prior to the service. Interment will follow in Memory Gardens.

Memorials may be made to the American Bible Society, P.O. Box 96812, Washington, D.C. 20090-6812 or Gideon International, at The Gideons International Processing Center, P.O. Box 97251, Washington, DC 20090-7251.

Condolences may be expressed at www.RobinsonFuneralHomes.com, or in person at the Duckett-Robinson Funeral home, 108 Cross Creek Road, Central.