Olive (Pat) Robins Yenor, formerly of Lewiston
SPOKANE -Olive Patricia (Pat) Robins Yenor, a former Lewiston nurse and wife of an Idaho governor, died here Friday at Holy Family Hospital after battling against leukemia. She was 79.
She was born March 12, 1914, on the family farm outside Ray, N.D., to William and Margaret Lewis Simpson. She graduated from high school there in 1932. She finished nurse training at St. Luke's Hospital in Spokane in 1936. She lived in towns such as Potlatch and Lapwai, where she worked for the Indian Health Service. She started working at Benewah Community Hospital in St. Maries in 1938, where she met and married doctor and state legislator Charles A. Robins. He was elected governor in 1946 and the family moved into the newly acquired governor's mansion. She was an active first lady, attending many functions.
The family moved to Lewiston in 1951, where her husband be came the medical director of the North Idaho Medical Service Bureau. She worked as a nurse for several physicians and became a first-aid nurse for Potlatch Forests Inc. in 1958. One of her daughters, Becky, was born in Lewiston. She was active in Camp Fire Girls, Eastern Star and P.E.O. and known for her numerous hobbies.
Years later, she married Larry Pugh of St. Maries and traveled widely with him until his death in 1978.
A year later, she married G.E. Yenor of St. Maries. He died in May of 1993.
She moved to Spokane in 1992 for health reasons and to be closer to her sisters. She enjoyed keeping was in touch with friends and was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane.
Survivors include three daughters, Patricia A. Olson of Columbia, Md., Paula R. Ward of Whidbey Island, Wash., and Becky Robins of Yakima; a brother, Norman Simpson of Ray, N.D.; sisters, Lelia Moe of Hay Draw, N.D., and Mavis Bartels and Pauline Baxter, both of Spokane; two granddaughters, and a great-grandson.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane and at 2 p.m. at the Church of Nativity in Lewiston. Burial will follow at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens. The family suggests memorials go to either the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in Spokane, the North-west Children's Home in Lewiston or the Hospice of Spokane. Riplinger Funeral Home of Spokane is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Tribune, Monday, November 08, 1993
SPOKANE -Olive Patricia (Pat) Robins Yenor, a former Lewiston nurse and wife of an Idaho governor, died here Friday at Holy Family Hospital after battling against leukemia. She was 79.
She was born March 12, 1914, on the family farm outside Ray, N.D., to William and Margaret Lewis Simpson. She graduated from high school there in 1932. She finished nurse training at St. Luke's Hospital in Spokane in 1936. She lived in towns such as Potlatch and Lapwai, where she worked for the Indian Health Service. She started working at Benewah Community Hospital in St. Maries in 1938, where she met and married doctor and state legislator Charles A. Robins. He was elected governor in 1946 and the family moved into the newly acquired governor's mansion. She was an active first lady, attending many functions.
The family moved to Lewiston in 1951, where her husband be came the medical director of the North Idaho Medical Service Bureau. She worked as a nurse for several physicians and became a first-aid nurse for Potlatch Forests Inc. in 1958. One of her daughters, Becky, was born in Lewiston. She was active in Camp Fire Girls, Eastern Star and P.E.O. and known for her numerous hobbies.
Years later, she married Larry Pugh of St. Maries and traveled widely with him until his death in 1978.
A year later, she married G.E. Yenor of St. Maries. He died in May of 1993.
She moved to Spokane in 1992 for health reasons and to be closer to her sisters. She enjoyed keeping was in touch with friends and was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane.
Survivors include three daughters, Patricia A. Olson of Columbia, Md., Paula R. Ward of Whidbey Island, Wash., and Becky Robins of Yakima; a brother, Norman Simpson of Ray, N.D.; sisters, Lelia Moe of Hay Draw, N.D., and Mavis Bartels and Pauline Baxter, both of Spokane; two granddaughters, and a great-grandson.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane and at 2 p.m. at the Church of Nativity in Lewiston. Burial will follow at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens. The family suggests memorials go to either the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in Spokane, the North-west Children's Home in Lewiston or the Hospice of Spokane. Riplinger Funeral Home of Spokane is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Tribune, Monday, November 08, 1993
Olive (Pat) Robins Yenor, formerly of Lewiston
SPOKANE -Olive Patricia (Pat) Robins Yenor, a former Lewiston nurse and wife of an Idaho governor, died here Friday at Holy Family Hospital after battling against leukemia. She was 79.
She was born March 12, 1914, on the family farm outside Ray, N.D., to William and Margaret Lewis Simpson. She graduated from high school there in 1932. She finished nurse training at St. Luke's Hospital in Spokane in 1936. She lived in towns such as Potlatch and Lapwai, where she worked for the Indian Health Service. She started working at Benewah Community Hospital in St. Maries in 1938, where she met and married doctor and state legislator Charles A. Robins. He was elected governor in 1946 and the family moved into the newly acquired governor's mansion. She was an active first lady, attending many functions.
The family moved to Lewiston in 1951, where her husband be came the medical director of the North Idaho Medical Service Bureau. She worked as a nurse for several physicians and became a first-aid nurse for Potlatch Forests Inc. in 1958. One of her daughters, Becky, was born in Lewiston. She was active in Camp Fire Girls, Eastern Star and P.E.O. and known for her numerous hobbies.
Years later, she married Larry Pugh of St. Maries and traveled widely with him until his death in 1978.
A year later, she married G.E. Yenor of St. Maries. He died in May of 1993.
She moved to Spokane in 1992 for health reasons and to be closer to her sisters. She enjoyed keeping was in touch with friends and was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane.
Survivors include three daughters, Patricia A. Olson of Columbia, Md., Paula R. Ward of Whidbey Island, Wash., and Becky Robins of Yakima; a brother, Norman Simpson of Ray, N.D.; sisters, Lelia Moe of Hay Draw, N.D., and Mavis Bartels and Pauline Baxter, both of Spokane; two granddaughters, and a great-grandson.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane and at 2 p.m. at the Church of Nativity in Lewiston. Burial will follow at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens. The family suggests memorials go to either the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in Spokane, the North-west Children's Home in Lewiston or the Hospice of Spokane. Riplinger Funeral Home of Spokane is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Tribune, Monday, November 08, 1993
SPOKANE -Olive Patricia (Pat) Robins Yenor, a former Lewiston nurse and wife of an Idaho governor, died here Friday at Holy Family Hospital after battling against leukemia. She was 79.
She was born March 12, 1914, on the family farm outside Ray, N.D., to William and Margaret Lewis Simpson. She graduated from high school there in 1932. She finished nurse training at St. Luke's Hospital in Spokane in 1936. She lived in towns such as Potlatch and Lapwai, where she worked for the Indian Health Service. She started working at Benewah Community Hospital in St. Maries in 1938, where she met and married doctor and state legislator Charles A. Robins. He was elected governor in 1946 and the family moved into the newly acquired governor's mansion. She was an active first lady, attending many functions.
The family moved to Lewiston in 1951, where her husband be came the medical director of the North Idaho Medical Service Bureau. She worked as a nurse for several physicians and became a first-aid nurse for Potlatch Forests Inc. in 1958. One of her daughters, Becky, was born in Lewiston. She was active in Camp Fire Girls, Eastern Star and P.E.O. and known for her numerous hobbies.
Years later, she married Larry Pugh of St. Maries and traveled widely with him until his death in 1978.
A year later, she married G.E. Yenor of St. Maries. He died in May of 1993.
She moved to Spokane in 1992 for health reasons and to be closer to her sisters. She enjoyed keeping was in touch with friends and was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane.
Survivors include three daughters, Patricia A. Olson of Columbia, Md., Paula R. Ward of Whidbey Island, Wash., and Becky Robins of Yakima; a brother, Norman Simpson of Ray, N.D.; sisters, Lelia Moe of Hay Draw, N.D., and Mavis Bartels and Pauline Baxter, both of Spokane; two granddaughters, and a great-grandson.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. David's Episcopal Church in Spokane and at 2 p.m. at the Church of Nativity in Lewiston. Burial will follow at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens. The family suggests memorials go to either the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in Spokane, the North-west Children's Home in Lewiston or the Hospice of Spokane. Riplinger Funeral Home of Spokane is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Tribune, Monday, November 08, 1993
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