Tamea Robert

JENNINGS

Funeral services for Mrs. Tamea Pilgrim Robert, 90, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, September 28, 2017 in the Miguez Funeral Home with Rev. Charles McMillin officiating. Mrs. Robert was born on October 3, 1926 in Elton, LA to Albert Lee and Sadie smith Pilgrim.

Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery under the direction of Miguez Funeral Home of Jennings.

Funeral home visitation will be from 2:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday; and 8:00 a.m. Thursday until time of services.

A rosary will be recited at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home chapel.

Mrs. Robert died at 9:15 p.m., Monday, September 25, 2017 in the Jeff Davis Living Center.

Mrs. Robert attended S.L.I. (now the University of Louisiana in Lafayette) and Hotel Dieu in New Orleans majoring in nursing. She worked for years at Jennings American Legion Hospital as an LPN before returning to school and obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing at McNeese University in Lake Charles. She continued to work first as an RN and later as Director of Nursing at the American Legion until her retirement. After retirement she continued a part time nursing career providing home health care.

Mrs. Robert loved gardening, reading and took great pride in her career as a nurse.

Survivors include one daughter, Sharyn Robert of Crowley; two sons, Forrest Robert of Jennings, Douglas Robert of Colorado; one brother, Stanley Pilgrim and wife Susan of Houston, Texas; her six grandchildren Tara Landrum Hebert, Elizabeth Landrum, Jeffrey Robert, Jay Robert, Damon Robert and Jenna Robert and her three great granddaughters, Averie and Adyson Hebert and Sloane Borne-Robert.

She is preceded in death by her husband of fifty seven years, Sidney Robert, Jr., her parents, Albert Lee and Sadie (Smith) Pilgrim and her half-brother, Carl Albert Pilgrim.

In lieu of flowers the family request donations be made in her name to the Carnegie Library or the Zigler Museum in Jennings.