Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Alice ROBINSON
Alice Robinson Erb was born Aug. 7, 1914, in North Eaton, where her father's family had lived since the Revolutionary War.
She and her twin sister were the third and fourth children of the late Louis N. and Caroline Hadley Robinson.
She attended Swarthmore College, graduated from Stanford University, and earned an M.D, from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1939, she married a fellow medical student, Howard R. Erb. While he was in England in World War II, she practiced gynecology in Philadelphia. After the war they settled in Allentown. The youngest of their four children was just one year old when Howard, a neurosurgeon, suddenly died of a heart attack.
Alice served as clerk of Lehigh Valley Friends Meeting (Quakers), board member of the American Friends Service Committee, Girl Scout council treasurer and troop leader, a founder of the Allentown League of Women Voters, and board member of Allentown Planned Parenthood- while inevitably knitting during numerous committee meetings! She loved watching wildlife from the porch of her family cottage in North Eaton as the sun set behind the mountains. She traveled widely, but always felt most at home in its woods and fields. Later, she enjoyed a house on Saddle Lake, kayaking in a boat she named "Granny's Folly." Her favorite pastimes included sewing, reading, gardening, and playing Go Fish with her grandchildren. The annual Robinson family reunion was very important to her, as long as her health permitted.
For more than 30 years, she lived at Kendal-at-Longwood, where she celebrated her 100th birthday, 11 days before her death.
She leaves four children: Molly E. Adams, Christine Erb, Hannah E. Tolles, and Jonathan H. Erb; seven grandchildren, and one great grandson.
Her five siblings predeceased her: Walter H. Robinson, Miles H. Robinson, Christine R. Taylor, J. Mark Robinson, and T. Thacher Robinson.
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