Funeral services for Margaret Robinson, the wife of Rev. Charles E. Robinson, will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, February 1, 2014, at the Starlight MBC, 3506 West Cermak Road, where he is pastor and she had been the church’s First Lady. 

Mrs. Robinson, 65, passed last Tuesday at Rush Presbyterian Hospital after a long illness, according to her husband who said she had been on dialysis for a couple of years

Born on February 4, 1948 in Duncan, Mississippi to a family of 16, Robinson came to Chicago in 1965 where she met Rev. Robinson while working in a processing plant in DesPlaines. “We fell in love at work,” said Rev. Robinson who married his true love on April 19, 1986 in Chicago.

A mother of four, Mrs. Robinson was a housewife and soul mate to her beloved husband.

“Condolences go out to Rev. Robinson and his family on behalf of Interfaith Illinois,” said Chuck Bowen, administrative assistant to Bishop Dr. Claude Porter, chairman of Interfaith Illinois. “She will be greatly missed,” said Bowen.

Mrs. Robinson leaves to mourn: four daughters, Lorraine, Vanessa, Yvette Robinson, Charlie Ashley, seven sisters, Ernestine, Leola, Thelma, Mary, Gloria, Barbara, Azzie, one brother, Charlie.

Burial will be held at the Forest Homes Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.

• by Chinta Strausberg on January 30, 2014 at 9:30pm
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