The Very Rev. W. Robert Insko, 76, retired priest of the Diocese of Lexington, died Sept. 18 of congestive heart failure.

Fr. Insko was a native of Paris, Ky., and a graduate of the University of Kentucky, Vanderbilt University, the School of Theology at the University of the South, Duke University, Lexington Theological Seminary and Union Institute. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1950. Fr. Insko served as curate at Christ Church, Lexington, KY, 1950-52; rector of St. Stephen's, Erwin, NC, 1952-54; chaplain at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1954-59; executive director of Christian education, Diocese of Tennessee, 1959-63; rector of the Church of the Advent, Nashville, TN, 1963-65; rector of Ascension, Frankfort, KY, 1966-72; vicar of St. Philip's, Harrodsburg, KY, 1972-75; rector of Holy Trinity, Georgetown, KY, 1975-87, by which parish he was named rector emeritus. He was dean of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of Kentucky, 1975-80, and named dean emeritus in 1989. Fr. Insko also taught at other schools. He is survived by his wife, Mary K. Southard, a son, six grandchildren and a sister.