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Kenneth L. “Ken” Roberson is a Florida native and was born in Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida in 1943. He was educated in Florida’s public school system. His grandfather, J. C. Kennerly, was an owner and operator of a grocery store in East Bradenton and was also a citrus grower. Ken comes from a working class family, his mother worked at the family grocery until it was sold in the early fifties, then for a dry cleaner and for the last thirty-four years at a Bradenton funeral home were she still works part-time today at 86 years of age. His father worked at the funeral home as an ambulance driver and funeral assistant for over twenty nine-years until his retirement in 1976 and death the following year. Ken grew up around the grocery store and the funeral home and learned the importance of service to others at an early age.
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Ken knows the value of a dollar and hard
work. At the age of 12 he started
delivering newspapers for the Bradenton
Herald until he began working with his
father. He worked at the funeral home
while in high school and while attending
college. Ken knows the importance of good
medical care, while attending mortuary
college in Dallas, Texas he worked as a
surgical technician at Baylor University
Medical Center.
Ken has owned and operated his own
business, serving the citizens of
Charlotte, Sarasota and Lee Counties for
31 years. He knows what it’s like to have
to make a payroll. He understands the
challenges business owners and operators
face in today’s world. He moved to
Charlotte County in 1975 and founded the
Roberson-Schlossberg Funeral Home. In 1979
he purchased Mr. Schlossberg’s interest
and changed the name to Roberson Funeral
Home. In 1982 a crematory was added and
the name changed to Roberson Funeral Home
& Crematory. In 1986 he partnered with a
group of funeral directors to take
Restlawn Memorial Gardens, Charlotte
County’s first perpetual care cemetery out
of receivership. In 1991 he opened the
Roberson Funeral Home & Crematory Punta
Gorda Chapel. Ken’s family includes, two
sons, Mark L. (wife, Connie) Roberson of
Woodstock, GA and James Clay (wife, Toni)
Roberson, who is in business with his
father, of Port Charlotte; six
grandchildren, Trent, Abby, Zachary,
Hannah, Hayden, and Halayna Roberson; his
mother, Mary Roberson; three sisters, and
many nieces and nephews.
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