Obit – Ms. Trina Robertson-Henry

A Carthage homemaker, Ms. Trina Robertson-Henry, was discovered unresponsive at 5:40 a.m. Tuesday morning at the family’s Vivian Lane home by her daughter Hagen. She was pronounced deceased on arrival at 6:36 a.m. July 29, 2025 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Medical Center emergency department in Carthage.

She was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and had requested of her four daughters to be cremated and there were to be no services. In keeping with her wishes she is being cremated at the Cumberland Family Services in Algood and the cremains will be buried on her parent’s lot in the Garden of Everlasting Life at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.

Ms. Trina was one of four children of the late Arthur Eugene “Buster” Robertson who died at the age of 60 on January 14, 2010 and Barbara Frances Angel Robertson who died at the age of 66 on October 1, 2014 and was born Trina Marie Robertson in Carthage on December 29, 1966.

Ms. Trina was saved at the age of 10 and was baptized into the full fellowship of the Cave Springs Missionary Baptist Church in the Liberty Community of Dekalb County, where she remained a member until her death.

Ms. Trina was a loving mother to her four daughters and a special Nona to her nine grandchildren, and to her the most important thing in life was family.

Surviving are her four daughters, Brooke Bennett and spouse Tabithia of Lafayette, Hagen Gentry of Carthage, Candy Hilgadiack and husband Josh of Portland, Jacy Kemp and husband Sam of Pax River, Maryland; sister, Tracy Robertson Scurlock and husband Eld. Rickey Scurlock of the Temperance Hall Community, Jay Robertson and wife Amy McDonald Robertson of Hartsville, Mark Robertson of Lebanon; nine grandchildren, Abigail, Addison and Allie Bennett, Preston and Presli Marie Gentry, Abi Hilgadiack and Ridge Melton, Journey Marie and Sailor Kemp; many loving nieces and nephews.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE