Margie Robinson

Margie Louise Robinson, 93, passed away July 19, 2015 at Providence Hospice Place in Waco. Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, August 1, at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Boulevard, with Rev. Terry Graham officiating. Visitation will be 1:30 – 2 p.m. prior to the service. Private burial will be later at Waco Memorial Park next to her beloved husband.

Margie was born in Smarr, Georgia to James W. and Sarah Jane Lewis Benson. She grew up in central Texas. She married Hollis S. Robinson in 1944 and they were happily married until his death in 2006.

After finishing business school, Margie worked in Civil Service at the local Veterans Administration Regional Office and in Fort Worth at the War Assets Administration and the Civil Aeronautics Administration.

While living in Dickinson, after all three of her children were in school, she earned her B.S. cum laude from The University of Houston. She later earned her M.S. degree from the University of Houston. Afterward, she served as a teacher, counselor, and educational diagnostician in the Dickinson Independent School District, from which she retired.

Margie accepted Christ as her Savior at the age of ten and taught her first Sunday School class at the age of sixteen. Throughout her life she worked in some capacity with every age group. Therefore she was delighted to be able to sit in a Sunday School class with a group of her peers at First Baptist Church of Woodway after moving there in 1983.

She is a former member of the Texas Retired Teachers Association, League of Women Voters, and was editor of the League Bulletin.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by two grandchildren.

Margie is survived by sons, James M. Robinson and wife Lawanna of Dallas and Dr. Randy P. Robinson and wife Vicky of Houston; and by daughter, Jean Ann and husband Dallas H. Tubbs of Bakersfield, California. She is also survived by nine grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Woodway, 13000 Woodway Drive, Woodway, TX. 76712.

The family appreciates the staff of St. Elizabeth Place, specifically Rheadene Weber, Linda Smith, Earlene Adikson, and JoAnn Walton, the staff of Right at Home, specifically Kim Pence, Tiffany Babeu, and Inez Sisneroz, and the physicians and nurses at Providence Hospital.