Edwina Anita Maria Robinson, known affectionately as 'Dear, age 85, was called home on August 19th, 2014 in the Park Plaza Nursing Home in San Angelo, Texas. She was born July 28, 1929 to Edgar and Carrie Lacy and was the oldest of nine children. She attended schools in San Antonio where she excelled academically. Dear married at an early age in San Antonio and from that union two children were born: Jacquelyn Juanita and Johnny Edward.
Dear remarried to Melvin Estelle Robinson in 1950. From that union six children were born: Ottie Cynthia, Ronde LeVan, Melvia Gayle, Melvin Dwain, Don Du Bois and Chetman Lacy. Following her husband's ordination into the ministry in the early 1950s, the young couple served a number of congregations during their life together including churches in West, Texas; Waco and finally San Angelo, Texas where she served with her husband for more than 34 years until he retired from the pulpit in 2002.
Dear was preceded in death by her husband Rev. M.E. Robinson; daughter, Melvia Gayle; father, mother, two brothers (Charles and Marcus Lacy); and two sisters (Mary Lacy and Diane Wilson). She leaves to honor her memory her children: Jacquelyn Badger (Floyd), Lancaster, Texas; John McKenzie, Austin, Texas; Cynthia Mitchell, Round Rock, Texas; Ronde Robinson, San Angelo, Texas; Melvin Robinson, San Angelo; Rev. Don Robinson, Dallas, Texas; SFC Chetman Robinson USA, Retired, San Angelo; and son-in-law Thomas McClinton, San Antonio.
She also leaves behind her siblings James Lacy, Chicago, Illinois; Carrie Reese, San Antonio, Texas; Michael Lacy and Bonnie Thornton, both of San Antonio and a brother-in-law Sonny Roberson, Taylor, Texas.
Dear is also survived by 21 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and 3 great, great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 23rd at Antioch First Missionary Baptist Church, 301 W. 23rd Street, San Angelo, Texas with the Rev. Edward Davis officiating. Burial will follow at Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens in San Angelo. The Robinson family would like to extend our gratitude to all the staff at the Park Plaza Nursing Home in San Angelo for their attentiveness and loving care. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Dear's name to Antioch First Missionary Baptist Church.
I am home in heaven, dear ones,
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
every restless tossing passed.
I am now at peace forever,
safely home in heaven at last.
There is still work waiting for you,
so you must not idly stand.
Do it now, while life remaineth,
you shall rest in God's own land.
When that work is completed,
He will gently call you home.
Ah, the rapture of that meaning,
Oh, the joy to see you come!
Family and friends may sign an online register book at
www.johnsons-funeralhome.com.
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