Leroy Robertson, music giant from the Rockies

by Marian Robertson Wilson

Leroy Jasper Robertson was born 21 December 1896 in Fountain Green, Utah. His parents were Jasper Heber Robertson and Alice Almyra Adams. He married Naomi Nelson, daughter of Waldemar Theodore Nelson and Karen Marie Jensen, 1 September 1925. They had four children. He was a musician, composer and professor at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.