Eleanor Delia Robbins (1915 - 2015)

Born 16 Sep 1915 in Tyndall, Bon Homme, South Dakota, United States

Died 12 Mar 2015 at age 99 in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States

Biography

Parents: Guy Everett Robbins (1876 - 1967) and Delia Centennial Allen Robbins (1876 - 1968).

Birth: Sep. 16, 1915 in Tyndall, Bon Homme County, South Dakota. ^[1]

Siblings:

• Lidia Fern Felton (1895 - 1970)
• Lawrence Jacob Robbins (1897 - 1962)
• Muriel Irene Robbins Schaffhausen (1898 - 1970)
• Olive G Robbins Cochran (1899 - 1991)
• Edna May Robbins Szymanski (1901 - 1995)
• Howard Everett Robbins (1903 - 1968)
• Wilda Adaline Robbins Larson (1904 - 1991)
• Shirley Ann Robbins Peterson (1906 - 1995)
• Ernest Guy Robbins (1908 - 2001)
• Dorothy W Robbins Hanson (1910 - 1984)
• Mildred Jean Robbins McDermott (1914 - 2015)
• Beulah E Robbins Mack-Thomas (1917 - 2006)
• Charles R Robbins (1920 - 2013)
• Rolland James Robbins (1921 - 2015)

Spouses:

1. Elwin O McCain (1904 - 1970)
2. Otto Fredrick Bruns (1908 - 1984)

Death: Mar. 12, 2015 in Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota.

Burial: Pine Lawn Memorial Park, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota. ^[2]

Notes

Obituary

Eleanor Delia Bruns-Hiatt, 99, Rapid City, died Thursday, March 12, 2015 at home.

She was born Sept. 16, 1915 in Tyndall, SD to Guy and Delia (Allen) Robbins. She had 9 sisters and 7 brothers. What a fantastic lady, loving mother and devoted wife. As a child she used to pick and clean chickens, iron clothes and pump gas for 25 cents a day. She loved to dance at the Elks Club, the Moose Lodge and the VFW. She enjoyed dressing up for Halloween and always wanted her yard and house decorated for Christmas. She loved the Black Hills, camping, fishing and hunting with Otto. They had an old wood outboard fishing boat they named FULL-A-BRU (Larry Fuller and Otto Bruns).

Eleanor was a great cook and her specialty was making pies and she was always ready to play cards (May I). Up until last year she was driving her little VW bug convertible with "Love Bug' license plates, ladybug black dots and headlight eyelashes. She enjoyed those penny slots at Tin Lizzies and Cadillac Jacks in Deadwood. Her hobbies were knitting and crocheting, specializing in afghans, at which she was so proud of. She won many ribbons at county fairs.

Toward the end she had awesome caregivers that came in daily, preparing meals and seeing that she got to bed. I have such gratitude for Marilyn Hershly, Sue Peterson, Ilze McCracken, Elaine Noyes, Verma Stehly, Kathy Heldreth and her best friend Lois Meredith (wife of Buddy Meredith country western singer). She always spoke her mind and you always knew her likes and dislikes; pancakes had to be thin. All that knew her loved her and she was an awesome, positive inspiration to all.

This was my Mom. The first love of my life and I always called her 2-3 times a day and she was always upbeat. I would like to give special thanks to Chris Braband, Dan Turgeon, Frank Stehly, Jim Steele, Dexter Koehne and Scott Koenig. Eleanor is survived by her son Jerry Lee McCain; her grandson, Michael Bruns McCain; her granddaughter, Michelle Dawn McCain; her brother, James 'Rollie' Robbins and her sister Mildred McDermott.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDD-QRH2 : 11 February 2018), Eleanor Robbins, 16 Sep 1915; citing Birth, Bon Homme, South Dakota, United States, South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143803121/eleanor-delia-hiatt: accessed 9 September 2022), memorial page for Eleanor Delia Robbins Hiatt (16 Sep 1915–12 Mar 2015), Find A Grave: Memorial #143803121, citing Pine Lawn Memorial Park, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Everett Robbins (contributor 47347160).

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6NK-5QS : 3 February 2021), Elenore Robbins in entry for Guy E Robbins, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQV9-MMT : accessed 9 September 2022), Eleanor D Robbins in household of Guy E Robbins, Hermosa, Custer, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 1A, line 15, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2221; FHL microfilm 2,341,955.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V191-P4W : 25 May 2021), Eleanore Robbins in household of Herbert C Jones, Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) , sheet , line , family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll .

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