Obituary: Virginia Robinson

Virginia Robinson, loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend, passed away Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at the age of 77. Virginia was born in Newnan, Georgia, on May 31, 1943. 

She graduated from Auburn University in 1965 with a degree in elementary education. Virginia and her husband, Cecil, were married later that year. They moved to Orlando in 1968.

Virginia was a decades-long member of First Baptist Church of Windermere and enjoyed teaching kindergarteners in Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. For many years, she tutored children at the West Orange Christian Service Center. 

Virginia loved playing bridge, and riding bicycles in the morning with a longtime group of friends. She was a founding member of Bloom & Grow Garden Society. 

Virginia found great joy in being a wife, mother and grandmother and delighted in spending time with family.

Virginia is preceded in death by her mother, Estelle M. Griffith, and stepfather, Charles E. Griffith.

She is survived by her devoted husband, Cecil W. Robinson (Windermere, Florida); daughter, Celia Robinson Anderson and husband Doug (Jacksonville, Florida); and grandsons, Aaron and Benjamin Anderson.

A service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at First Baptist Church of Windermere, 300 Main St., Windermere. The family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 a.m. in the Worship Center. Entombment at Woodlawn Memorial Park, 400 Woodlawn Cemetery Road, Gotha.

Memorial contributions may be made to Samaritan’s Purse (samaritanspurse.org or P.O. Box 3000 Boone, NC 28607) or The Preschool Ministry at First Baptist Church of Windermere (ourfamily.church or 300 Main St., Windermere, FL 34786).