The Round Robin

A Newsletter for the Robbins Families of Southern Indiana and their Descendants

now in our second year of publication!

Vol. Two No. Three

February & March 1999

In this issue:

News from your editor
In Loving Memory
The Family Album
Family Reunion 1997
The Genealogy Page

 

News from the editor

Spring is in the air here in Central-Illinois even if the calendar says it's only mid-February! We had a great day for celebrating our family Valentines and recovering from the New Year's Day winter storm.

This month's printed edition was mailed to subscribers the week of February 8, 1999. This online edition features several of the pictures in the current edition of The Round Robin. Lucky online readers even get to see the modern day pictures in color! (Won't it be nice when color printing becomes inexpensive enough for us to use it in the printed edition?)

You're sure to enjoy Mary Jane Gunderson Young's tribute to her grandmother, Bether Jane Curran-Robbins which also appears in this electronic edition.

Finally, please note that the genealogy column that appears in the current printed edition was previously published in the October / November online edition of the newsletter. See, sometimes, web users get things early! That must be why nearly 1500 visits have been made to this site.

We're still available at our address on America Online, but the easiest way to get to the web page is to type jg3.com/roundrobin

In Loving Memory

Bertha Jane (Curran) Robbins
February 15, 1897 - January 8, 1977

Light

Although her face is worn, wrinkled and tired,
I can still see life in my Grandma's eyes.
Through the blue-gray cataract lenses that can
barely see, her life, her soul shines.
Sometimes, the light burns so bright when she
laughs and smiles that it fills the room with
happiness and sunshine. Other times the
candle burns so ghostly faint that even my
attempts to strengthen it fail. For seventy-
nine years this light has shone faithfully
through the good and the bad in her life. But
the wisdom she holds is ignored and rejected
because of her age. She tries so hard to help
and understand that she almost extinguishes
her life. One day we will lose her light and
sunshine and will be lost in darkness.

Written by Bertha's granddaughter,
Mary Jane (Gunderson) Young
in the fall of 1976.

The Family Album

Oliver Robbins and wife, Sarah Belle (Davidson) Robbins with children Frank Robbins and Louella Robbins.

Amasa Robbins, Jr. and wife, Martha Ella (Davidson) (Bowling) Robbins with children Denny Robbins (left) and John K. Bowling.

Amasa and Oliver were brothers. Martha Ella and Sarah Belle were sisters.

Family Reunion 1997

Taken at the 1997 Robbins / Davidson Family Reunion, North Vernon, Indiana

Left to right: Robert Lee Galyen, Orville Leon (Bud) Robbins, Katherine (Robins) Waltermire, Kathryn (Johnson) Robbins, Louie Robbins, Sr., Gladys (Robbins) Gunderson, Mabel (Robins) Christian, Ehtel Mae (Galyen) Robbins, Betty (Galyen) Johnson.

The Genealogy Page

by Gladys (Robbins) Gunderson

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Look for our next edition later in the Spring!