Margaret Robbins

Margaret Elizabeth Robbins, 98, a Mountain Home resident for over 50 years, died July 14, 2014, in Mountain Home.

She was born July 28, 1915, in Fall River, Mass., the daughter of Carroll Grover Robbins and Hazel Saunders Robbins. The family moved to Clearwater, Fla., in 1926, and finally to Tampa. Margaret graduated from Hillsborough High School in Tampa in 1932. She never married.

During World War II, Margaret worked for Tampa Shipbuilding as an engineering draftsman. She lived in Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas and California, before finally settling in Mountain Home in the 1950s.

Margaret worked as an engineering assistant at Mountain Home Air Force Base until retirement.

She was appointed by the wing commander to be manager of Federally Employed Women on base. She received a bronze plaque as best in Tactical Air Command.

She served on the Mountain Home Mayor's Committee for Employment of Handicapped. She was appointed by the governor to the Idaho Commission on Women's Programs, serving several years in that position.

She was a member of the Idaho Federation of Business and Professional Women, Elmore County Medical Facility Auxiliary, Mountain Home Historical Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Margaret was predeceased by her parents and her brothers, Donald Robbins and William Robbins.

Survivors include her twin sisters, Phyllis Bearss of Tampa, and Dorothy Fisher of Melbourne, Florida, her brother, Carroll Grover Robbins, Jr., of Tampa and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services and burial will be at Garden of Memories Funeral Home in Tampa, Fla. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.