DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. (WMC) – An Olive Branch centenarian who helped defend American democracy more than eight decades ago isn’t letting age keep him from doing his civic duty.
World War II veteran K.T. Robbins, 105, headed to the polls Friday to cast his absentee ballot at the DeSoto County Courthouse. Believed to be Mississippi’s oldest living WWII veteran, Robbins celebrated his 105th birthday on the Fourth of July—a date he shares with the nation he fought to protect.
Robbins enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 18, rising to sergeant in Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army and participating in D-Day operations. After spending five birthdays overseas during the war, he returned home to the Mid-South, where he and his late wife, Lillian, owned and operated Robbins Hardware in Memphis…