Background
Robertson was born to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Floyd Robertson in Batesville in Independence County in northern Arkansas. Homer Robertson was born in 1910 and died in Minden in 1981. After a divorce, the senior Robertson married Imogene Kimmer Stanfield (1925–2008), who was formerly married to Robert Stanfield, Sr. The couple had a son, Eddie Robertson (born 1962) of Minden, the half-brother of Bill Robertson and his brother, Bobby Gerald Robertson (born ca. 1944), subsequently of Branson, Missouri. After their parents' divorce, Bill and Bobby Robertson were reared primarily by their late mother, a clerk in a shoe store.
Robertson and his wife, the former Barbara Kimmer, have three children. Robertson was an employee of Talbot's Shoe Store in Magnolia, Arkansas. He was sent to Minden to operate a Talbot's outlet and thereafter purchased the store from Ben Talbot and his father, D.O. Talbot, having renamed it "Robertson's Shoes".
For a time, Bill and Barbara Robertson had two stores in Minden, one in Homer in Claiborne Parish, and a fourth in Shreveport. Robertson put forth a budget for each store based on the past year's sales with growth projected in the totals.
As a past president of the Jaycees, he had been included in the 1965 edition of the publication Outstanding Young Men of America.
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