Adele J Robinson
Adele J Robinson
October 1, 1922
December 27, 2016
Falmouth - Adele J. Robinson passed peacefully on December 27th at her home at Ocean View. She was 94. She was born in Pasadena, California to Claude Joseph, who was in the Army, and Edith McMahon Joseph, and had two siblings, Donald and Marion. They lived in many places in the country when she was a child. She attended University of Washington. She met her first husband, June Gates, in Washington. He was killed in action in Germany in World War II, and she served on the Red Cross in Paris for several years.
She returned to Maine and lived with his parents, Capt. Nelson Gates and Emily Gates, and worked at Migis Lodge, Sebago Lake. That is where she met her husband, John E. Robinson. They lived in Falmouth and had three girls, Wendy, Claudia and Didi Robinson. She was very active in the community: ~a troop leader of the Girl Scouts for many years, involved with the Junior League, the Falmouth Historical Society, Shalom House, the Falmouth Garden Club, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, and a volunteer at the Flower Box at Maine Medical Center. She also was the editor for the Portland Symphony Orchestra Cookbook. They were active boaters, and sailed and boated for decades.
Their middle daughter Claudia, developed schizophrenia in her teens, and they became actively involved in the Maine Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Upon her suicide they helped raise a million dollars and were instrumental in creating the Amity House in Portland. Adele won an award for being one of the 10 most philanthropic women in the state of Maine during this time.~
In her later years, after her divorce, she lived in Ocean View where she thrived. She will be sorely missed by everyone who knew her. She was predeceased by John E. Robinson and her daughter, Claudia Robinson. She leaves behind her two daughters, Wendy Osgood and Didi Robinson, and 4 grandchildren: Ted and Brad Osgood, and Nick and Katie Reynolds.~
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