The last photo that I have with my sweet Grammy
All of her Kids. Gary, Pam, Patti, and Scott
My
Preggers Cousin Jenna and I. You can't even tell! (I wish I had got more pictures of my great cousins. )
I didn't get a picture with Kelli, Hen, Ben, Evie and Matt. It was nice my family was there (we missed you Ali and Boys! )
My Sweet Grammy passed away on April 11
th at the age of 94. Grammy was the biggest sweetheart! There was just something so special about her. She always made you feel like you were her favorite grandchild. I was lucky enough to go down two weeks ago and say good-bye to Grammy. I was in Arizona and my mom said that she didn't think that Grams would make it much longer so I changed my flight to Vegas. I am so grateful that I did! Those few hours with my Grammy were so precious. I was able to chat with her, hold her hand and kiss her before she went to meet her sweetheart Ben and her son Hal in the next life. She was kind, funny and just as sassy as she always was. I will always cherish those last moments with a wonderful lady. She talked of meeting Lila and how excited she was, perhaps they are getting to know each other now.
Some of my favorite memories of Grammy is freshly baked bread, the candy jar, her jewelry ( I know where my love of the gems come form!) her kisses, her encouragement, her stories, the relationship with her sweetheart, her two minute phone calls, her love of the gospel, her welcoming spirit and her exclamations of "oh for fancy!" or my absolute favorite, "oh for snazzy!" She was so sassy, she always let you know what she was thinking, whether that meant she was telling me I was beautiful three times in an hour or whether she didn't like that fact that I had pet rats as a child. (I loved how she use to squeal when I brought them out to show her) But she always did everything with love. I can't even count the times she told me, "you are just perfect the way you are!"
I was so blessed to have such a wonderful woman in my life. I know why my mother is so incredible is partially due to this great woman. Quinn was looking at her obituary and said, hey did you know you have your Grammy's lips? I was so honored and thrilled that a bit of Grammy was in me. She was such an amazing woman. I will miss her but I am thrilled that she is no longer in pain and reunited with the love of her life!
Manon
Hawley Robison 1/29/1916 ~ 4/11/2010 Our beloved mother and grandmother, Manon H.
Robison, age 94, passed away peacefully in St. George, Utah on April 11. She was born January 29, 1916, at her home in Oasis, Utah, to Sims
Matheny and Arizona Church
Hawley and was the youngest of nine children. Her older sister loved opera and chose the name "Manon" from a French opera singer. When she was 11, her father passed away with multiple sclerosis. Her mother worked very hard to take care of the family through the Great Depression. When Manon was in 9
th grade, she went to
Hinckley High School where she met Ben
Robison. He was class president, and she was vice president so they became friends and dated off and on through high school. After high school Manon went to
LDS Business College, and then worked for a cousin in Los Angeles, California. Ben went to
BYU and was then called to the Western States Mission. When he got home from his mission, he and Manon got back together and were married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 8, 1939. They lived in
Hinckley until 1945 when Ben joined the Marine Corps and left for San Diego. Manon and their two children later joined him, and they lived there for a few months. By then the war was over so they moved back to the Delta area, buying a farm and home in Sutherland where they lived for 34 wonderful years. Life was busy with five children and a home to care for, farming to do, cattle to raise, and church callings to fulfill. Manon served in several positions in the Relief Society and Young Women's. It was a wonderful place to raise a family, and her family was her life. In 1978, she and Ben were called on a mission to New Zealand to be director of the Visitors Center in Hamilton. In 1981 they moved to Salt Lake City where they worked in the Jordan River Temple for eight and 1/2 years. In 1992 they moved to beautiful, sunny St. George and worked in the temple there. They enjoyed traveling and went all around the world on different cruises. Ben passed away May 28, 1998. Manon loved her family and the gospel and enjoyed reading and sewing and crocheted over 100 afghans to give to family members. She has 21 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchildren with more on the way. - A wonderful life!!!! She is survived by her children: Pamela (Ellis)
Hamblin of St. George; Patti (John) Thomson of Salt Lake City; Gary (Patty)
Robison of Mesa, Arizona; and Scott (
Marilu)
Robison of Delta; and her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband: Benjamin H
Robison; a son: Benjamin Hal
Robison; great-grandsons: Michael
Hamblin and Dillon
Robison, and all of her siblings. Services will be held on Saturday, April 17, 2010, at 1 p.m. in the Sutherland Chapel at 2500 N. 3000 W., Delta. Viewing at the church at 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Sutherland Cemetery under the direction of Nickle Mortuary.
My cute cousin in law Addi occasionally does flashbacks on her blog and I love the idea! Since I only started to blog two years ago I feel so sad that I missed the opportunity to remember so many great memories! (I should have started when you told me to Michelle!) It's amazing how many more pictures you take when you have a blog. So here is flashback number one. This is Quinn and I on our honeymoon. We took a cruise to the Mexican Rivera. We had so much fun. I just remember how weird it was to keep looking at each other and thinking, that's my husband now! Five years later I am just as amazed by him as I was then.
