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Neither snow piles nor COVID can thwart 100th birthday celebration in Phillipsburg (PHOTOS)
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
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Verna Robinson’s family generally likes to gather all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren together to celebrate her birthday, but not this year because of the coronavirus.
It just so happens, though, that this year’s big day on Saturday is a major milestone: triple digits, 100, a century.
So like many families across the Lehigh Valley region and beyond, her loved ones arranged for a socially distanced birthday parade past the lifelong Phillipsburg resident’s home.
Not even the piles of snow lingering from the near-record snowfall that ushered in February could keep the family away, though this year is their first to have to celebrate from a distance.
It is with sadness we announce the passing of Wayne Charles Robinson on December 9th of Covid-19. Wayne was born on July 21, 1939 to Bill and Verna Robinson. Wayne grew up on Norah Street with his family, attended Isabella Street Public School and then Fort William Collegiate Institute. Wayne was very hard working and took on many jobs in his youth. He attended the University of New Brunswick and earned a Degree in Forestry. He started working for Great Lakes Forest Products, which kept him in bush camps and often not at home as much as he liked, but he truly loved being in the forest. In 1965, he married his high school sweetheart, Sharon Smith and together they had two children Cherie (Kok) and Jeffrey. When Cherie was born, a snowstorm kept him away from being at her birth and as the children grew, he decided he needed to take on employment closer to home. He took a Woodland Management position with MacMillan Bloedel and was involved with their operations in Thunder Bay an