I'm going to tell the truth as I know it about Robin.

Born in 1958 to an unwed teenage mother who didn't want her and was handed off to her grandmother who didn't want her either but raised her anyway. Ruby and Robin lived in near poverty on a widows pension all the way through her collage years. If she wasn't already that way life made Ruby a hard blunt woman and Robin learned from an early age about life as Ruby saw it.

In grade school she read the Anne of Green Gables series. I think she knew them by heart. Anne became her roll model. Robin was Anne if you know the story.

From early on she made up her mind that she had to do it right, don't fail, life is hard. And I know she didn't. She was a favorite of her teachers, got A's, was polite, and earnest at all times.

She loved to read and write from early on. In high school she started Debate and she found competing, winning was everything, which she continued on with as part of the Wayne State Debate team competing at a national level.

After Collage and not wanting to go to Law school, which is what debate is for, she took a job as Editorial Assistant at The Detroit News. And so, her writing career began.

Over 40 years she wrote about Plumbing fixtures, Dive Bars, life insurance marketing, in the voice of Betty Crocker, food marketing, cooking/recipes, and People, lots of People and their lives doing what they do, with quotable words of course. To have made good money from putting words on paper for that long is a talent on its own. She knew how to pitch a story.

I have to talk about the Dogs. We bought our first Belgian Sheep dog in 83. Our second in 84. Our first litter of 6 in 85 and she/we became Trouvaille Belgians. We started showing our first one, Desi at about 9 mouths old. It took about dozen shows learning the ropes and Robin's competitive spirit took off. Ten, fifteen shows a year from Dallas to New York City, 11 states and Canada and the trips to Europe once for breeding. The competition made her blood flow. I saw it, I know it was true. Old debaters just a different stage or become lawyers. The shows and the training were a large part of her life for 20 years, less in recent years. Trouvaille still has 4 dogs. The last addition an import from the Netherlands in June 2022.

She was a private person with many friend groups in different parts of her life that I'm sure don't know each other, so to those that knew her in anyway I hope these facts of her life helps you understand the person you knew.

For the record: I first met her as a Waitress working a summer job at a Denny's in Allen Park when she was in college. She was the worlds worst Waitress, so bad sometimes I didn't leave a tip. She was kind of cute. It was maybe six months after she left that job and was back at collage our paths crossed and I asked her to go out with me that we started dating. By the time we married the next year I had a good idea what I was asking for and I got it.

William.

Williams contact information is below

watson7200@att.net
313-850-7006

William P. Watson
21075 Wick Rd.
Taylor, MI 48180

Visitation and celebration of life will be held at the Taylor Chapel of Howe Peterson Funeral Home, 9800 S. Telegraph Road, Taylor, Mi. 48180, 313-291-0900 from 12:00pm to 6:00pm.