Dede Robertson, wife of religious broadcaster, dies at 94
nypost.comstepping down last fall.In her autobiography, Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.“I was a Northerner, and Northern men just generally help around the house a little more,” she said. “I noticed the further south we moved, the less he did.”Her attitude changed after she had her own born-again experience at a church service, she told The AP. “I began to see how important what he was doing really was.”Robertson said that women should not work outside the home while their children are young unless they must.
She reared her kids and worked as a nursing professor after they went to school.She had represented the U.S. on the Inter-American Commission of Women, which was established to ensure recognition of women’s human rights.
She also served on the board of Regent University, which her husband founded.Pat Robertson said in a statement that his wife “was a woman of great faith, a champion of the gospel, and a remarkable servant of Christ who has left an indelible print on all that she set her hand to during her extraordinary life.”.
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