- Date Of Birth: April 16, 1920
- Date Of Death: September 11, 2006
- State: Arizona
Howard Robinson Senior passed away on September 11, 2006, in Flagstaff, AZ at the age of 86, after a long illness. He was born on April 16, 1920, in Knob Noster, Missouri, the son of Russell Howard Senior andFinis Robinson.
He moved with his family to Hamburg, New York, and later to Evanston, Illinois where he graduated from Evanston High School. Howard attended North Park College in Chicago and later moved to Los Angeles, California where he met and married Blanca Robertson (later divorced). After living in Los Angeles for a short time, they moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil where Howard was in the manufacturing business. While there they had six children and later returned to California where Howard was head of the Industrial Engineering Department at Sylvania Electric Company.
Howard was in Flagstaff, AZ attending to a son who had been in a motor vehicle accident and he met Wanda Euler. They began a friendship that turned to love and he moved to Flagstaff and they married in 1969. He worked for WL Gore and then in 1974 they opened the first Baskin-Robbins ice cream store in Flagstaff, which they ran for about 25 years.
Survivors include his wife Wanda, four sons, John, Lee, Erick, and JamesSenior, all of California, two step-children, Dottie Harkey and BillEuler of Flagstaff, and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his son Richard and daughter Deborah and his sister Ann Smith.
