Robbie June Havens
Our family suffered the tremendous loss of a treasured wife, mother and grandmother when Robbie June Havens passed away unexpectedly early this month. In this time, we reflect on all the unabated love and kindness she shared with us throughout all of our lives. Robbie and her husband Thomas Lee were childhood sweethearts that lived in a small coastal town in Bayside, Texas. Job opportunities in the poor farming community were few and far between, and Thomas Lee joined the U.S. Air Force when he was eighteen as a means to provide support to Robbie. His first assignment was Eilson AFB in Fairbanks in 1961, and upon return to Texas, they were married in 1962. Thomas Lee shared many stories of the beauty and wildness of Alaska, and they were destined to return someday. Robbie was the mother of three sons as her and Thomas Lee moved from installation to installation across the country. She was the light of our lives, always making time to take care of all of us, balancing work, family, and the occasional added burden of having a husband deployed overseas and standing tall through it all. In my 56 years as her son, I had never once heard my mother complain about anything….she was strong with a gentleness that was all encompassing. Robbie and Thomas Lee returned to Alaska in 1980. She worked for twenty years as a land law examiner for the Bureau of Land Management in downtown Anchorage, and retired with Thomas to a beautiful little cabin on a creek in Wasilla, fulfilling a dream that was started in 1961. She loved her family, and she lives on in us and everything around us, we will always remember her for her boundless compassion, never ending kindness, and undying love for those around her. She is survived by her husband Thomas Lee, sons Robert, James and Tom, and grandchildren Sage and Rubee’. Surviving brothers and sisters are Rhonda, Darlene, and Billy, all residents of the coastal home of south Texas.Obituary
Our family suffered the tremendous loss of a treasured wife, mother and grandmother when Robbie June Havens passed away unexpectedly early this month. In this time, we reflect on all the unabated love and kindness she shared with us throughout all of our lives. Robbie and her husband Thomas Lee were childhood sweethearts that lived in a small coastal town in Bayside, Texas. Job opportunities in the poor farming community were few and far between, and Thomas Lee joined the U.S. Air Force when he was eighteen as a means to provide support to Robbie. His first assignment was Eilson AFB in Fairbanks in 1961, and upon return to Texas, they were married in 1962. Thomas Lee shared many stories of the beauty and wildness of Alaska, and they were destined to return someday. Robbie was the mother of three sons as her and Thomas Lee moved from installation to installation across the country. She was the light of our lives, always making time to take care of all of us, balancing work, family, and the occasional added burden of having a husband deployed overseas and standing tall through it all. In my 56 years as her son, I had never once heard my mother complain about anything….she was strong with a gentleness that was all encompassing. Robbie and Thomas Lee returned to Alaska in 1980. She worked for twenty years as a land law examiner for the Bureau of Land Management in downtown Anchorage, and retired with Thomas to a beautiful little cabin on a creek in Wasilla, fulfilling a dream that was started in 1961. She loved her family, and she lives on in us and everything around us, we will always remember her for her boundless compassion, never ending kindness, and undying love for those around her. She is survived by her husband Thomas Lee, sons Robert, James and Tom, and grandchildren Sage and Rubee’. Surviving brothers and sisters are Rhonda, Darlene, and Billy, all residents of the coastal home of south Texas.