Times Herald Record
Middletown, NY
26 Mar 2013


FLORENCE JANE ROBBINS
June 8, 1930 - March 12, 2013
Thousand Oaks, CA

Florence Jane Robbins died on March 12, 2013 at Los Robles Hospital and
Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, CA, after a long illness.

She was born as Florence Jane Kelsey in Goshen, NY, to Clifford E. Kelsey
Sr. and his wife, Emma Tuthill Kelsey, on June 8, 1930. She graduated
from Wheaton College in Illinois as a Bachelor of Science in Zoology, then
became a school teacher in upstate New York, and earned a Master's degree
in Education. She moved to California, where she taught school again,
and met her husband, Howard Robbins. The Robbins family moved to Vestal,
New York in 1960, and returned to Thousand Oaks, California in 1968.

In addition to her work as a homemaker and mother, and activity in the
American Association of University Women, she joined a flight-school
in Camarillo, earned a pilot's license, and became an instructor. She
subsequently worked for a small airline, and then as a real-estate agent
until an increasing disability made that impossible.

She died three days short of her 56th Wedding Anniversary. She is
survived by her brother, Clifford E. Kelsey, Jr. of Hamptonburgh, NY;
her husband, Howard Robbins of Thousand Oaks, CA; five children, and
five grandchildren.