Marvelle Irene (Johnson) Robinson, 92, of Ottawa, passed away with her family by her side on Sunday, April 17, 2022, at her home at Brookdale-Urbana.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 22, 2022 at 11 a.m. at Crossbridge Community Church in Ottawa with Rev. Dick Schaill, of Mendota Church of the Nazarene, officiating. A visitation will be held one hour before the funeral at the church. Burial will be held at Oakwood Memorial Park. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Mueller Funeral Home in Ottawa.
Marvelle was born December 25, 1929 in Ottawa, IL to Arndt and Elsie (Mangles) Johnson. She was the eldest of three siblings.
A Registered Nurse, Marvelle worked at Sheridan Correctional Center, Libby Owens Ford and in the hospital and various skilled nursing facilities in and around Ottawa. She graduated from Silver Cross Hospital Nursing School in 1951. Marvelle attended Ottawa First Church of the Nazarene (Crossbridge) and Mendota Church of the Nazarene. A faithful Christian, skilled knitter, and world traveler, Marvelle was an active member of the Ravlin Congregate Center in Ottawa where she helped establish a weekly bible study in her later years and where she was a good neighbor and friend to all. She also contributed to her community in Brookdale-Urbana where she helped start a weekly Letter Writer’s Club.
She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Brent Robinson of Urbana (Lindsay Anderson), and both her siblings: Calvin Johnson, brother, Jacksonville, IL, and Esther (Johnson) Hanson and John Hanson, sister and brother-in-law, Bourbonnais, IL
She was preceded in death by her parents and one son, Richard Rosique.
She was laid to rest in the Garden of Inspiration.
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