Robbin Randle

MISSOULA - Robbin Lorrayne Randle moved to Polson in 2006, to be near family but an accident intervened, placing her in St. Patrick Hospital and she was relocated to Village Health Care and later the Beehive in Missoula. At each, she loved and was loved by all and for whose efforts her family is very grateful. With family close at hand, Robbin Lorrayne Randle passed peacefully of natural causes in the superb and compassionate embrace of the staff at St. Patrick Hospital Comfort Care unit in Missoula on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009.





She was born January. 28, 1924, to Spencer and Marle Jane Cooper Maurice, then of Spokane. Pastoral assignments eventually sent the family north to the Peace River country of Alberta, Canada, where she met, married, but later divorced Robert James Fleming. While Bob served with the army engineers in Europe, she contributed to the war effort





on a team of riveters in the Vancouver, British Columbia, shipyards.





Robbin met and married Ernest William Rosen and traveled extensively throughout India, Australia, the western United States and Canada. Robbin and Lance became the first couple to travel from Perth to Sydney, Australia, on scooters, a pair of Maicolettas. Later, for logical philosophical reasons that only she and Ernest understood, the family names were changed. Ernest became Lance H. Robbin set aside Violet May Genevieve Penelope, and her son Daye-Llyn asks simply, please don’t ask.





Robbin was an avid student of photography, operating a professional studio for many years in Edmonton, Alberta. Upon settling finally in the early 1960s, in Oregon City, Ore., near her mother’s birthplace, she became well known nationwide for her photographic negative retouching abilities, accomplishing unheard of image recovery and restoration. She loved art, and her oil paintings received people’s choice awards at a number of art shows in the Portland, Ore., area. Both Robbin and Lance enjoyed the outdoors, camping and rockhounding throughout the West. Avid lovers of animals, they raised champion show dogs, sheltered horses and enjoyed riding them along the Pacific Crest Trail and Cascade Range, and Robbin became a cat rescue society of one.





Robbin was preceded in death by her parents; both husbands; brother, Everett Maurice; and sister-in-law, Linda Shepard.





She is survived by son, Daye Llyn (Kathe) of Polson; granddaughters, Rochelle (Mark) Talbert and sons Daniel, Barret and Connor of Huson, Dawn (Rich) Liljenberg and sons Brandon, Richie and daughter Ashley of Oregon City, Renee (Casey) Schmidt and son Grayden of Milwaukie, Ore.; and their





mother, Martha Simshaw of Clackamas, Ore. Robbin is also survived by sister-in-law, Evelyn Maurice of Lebanon, Ore., her children Patricia Rogers, Jack Maurice, Peggy (Mike) Oakley and Dean Maurice; and Lance’s brother-in-law, Frank Shepard of New West Minister, B.C., and





his daughters Leslie and





Marnie.





Robbin will be mourned and remembered often by family and her friends of 50 years, Rose Ayers of Ocean Park, Wash., Kent and Judy Smith of Greeley, Colo., and Roy and Beverly Barr of Molalla, Ore.





Interment will be at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City.





Arrangements and transportation through Sunset Memorial Crematory.





Memorial contributions to AniMeals or your local Humane Society are always welcome.




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