- Date Of Birth: December 25, 1918
- Date Of Death: February 10, 2020
- State: Louisiana
In the early evening of February 10, 2020, Lucy Cornelia Dupree Robinson quietly passed away at her home at the age of 101.
Lucy was born in Coushatta, Louisiana on December 25, 1918, the youngest child of John Daniel Dupree and Lucy Cornelia Anglin Dupree. When she was just six weeks of age, her family moved to a farm in the Central community seven miles south of Delhi, Louisiana.
She graduated with honors from Central High School in 1935. Lucy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics from the Louisiana State Normal College (Northwestern State University) in 1938.
After graduating at age 19, Lucy began her career on November 1, 1938, in Rayville, Louisiana as a Home Supervisor with the Farm Security Administration (FSA). There she met her future husband, Douglas Robinson, Jr., whom she married on October 8, 1942.
In July 1943 Lucy resigned her position at the FSA to be a homemaker. She and Douglas had four children. Realizing they would have four children in college soon, she decided to go back to work to help finance their children’s college expenses. Thus, on June 1, 1960, Lucy went to work with the Louisiana State Department of Public Welfare until she retired as a Case Supervisor on January 1, 1984.
Education was very important to Lucy and Douglas, and their philosophy was that “An education once earned could never be taken from you.” They reared their four children – Doug, Ann, Mike, and Ellen – with this philosophy in mind, and all four children finished college “without owing a penny,” and all four children worked 30+ years and now enjoy good retirement benefits.
Also, Lucy was the longest serving member of the Lambda Kappa Club where she served two terms as president.
Lucy was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; her three sisters: Valley Dupree Sledge, Cleo Dupree Reynolds, Lutie Dupree Stout; her three brothers: Claude Cyril Dupree, Daniel Curtis Dupree, Lake Dupree; a special niece, Jeannette Reynolds, and her dear friends Camille Newsom, Lorraine Lamy, and Mable Johnson.
Survivors include: Her four children: Douglas Robinson III and wife Latina of New Orleans, LA; Ann Robinson Panichas of West Monroe, LA; Michael Dupree Robinson and partner Don Boutté of Baton Rouge, LA; and Ellen Robinson Yeldell of Monroe, LA.
Special thanks to Ruby Helen Diamond for her many years of love and support and to her loving caregiver, Edith Spencer.
