Dallas Co. TX - Obits: Jo Robbins ============================================================== Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved. Amarillo Globe-News http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ============================================================== Jo Robbins DALLAS - Jo Robbins, 75, died Saturday, Sept. 8, 2001. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Moore Funeral Home in Arlington. Burial will be in Moore Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Robbins died at her home in Dallas from complications of cancer. She was born July 13, 1926, in Lloyd, near Denton. Her parents were Walter Dee Lowrie Sr. and Anna Riley. She grew up in Hamby and graduated from Abilene High School in 1943. She attended TSCW in Denton for two years and married Freddie Robins in 1954. She resided in Fort Worth for many years before moving to Dallas in 1955. She worked as a secretary at Fletcher Oil & Gas Drilling, British American Oil and was secretary to Thos E. Stanley, architect. She returned to Fort Worth in 1965 and was secretary to Sam Denney at the law firm of Law, Snakard, Brown and Gambill. She then began working with her son as the typesetter and business manager for his newspaper, Meadowbrook Shopping News, from 1979 until he sold the paper in 1989. She continued to help him until the present with his portrait photography business which is now located at NorthPark Center in Dallas. She was preceded in death by her mother and father; a sister, Frankie Deming; and a brother, Jimmy Ray Lowrie. Survivors include a son, Marc Robbins of Dallas; two sisters, Annette Stevens of Fort Worth and Mozelle Eakens of Amarillo; a brother, Walter Dee Lowrie Jr. and wife, Marilyn, of Fort Worth; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. The family suggests memorials be to St. Matthew United Methodist Church, 2414 Hitson Lane, Fort Worth, TX 76112. Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 9, 2001 ---