A memorial service will be held at Riverwood Family Funeral Service in Brookhaven, MS on Friday, August 2, 2019.
Visitation hours will be from 4:00 – 6:00pm with a service held in the funeral home chapel at 6:00pm.
The eulogy will be performed by Bro Rodney Jones, her pastor from Oakdale Baptist Church in Brandon, MS.
Robin was born on January 16, 1958 in Minot, North Dakota but lived most of her life in Brookhaven, MS.
Her family includes her mother, Marjorie Beeson Lemery (deceased), and her father, Harold R. Beeson; five siblings,
Rachel McQuade, Snookie Winborne, Lori Thames, Lyn Foster and William Beeson; three children, Amy King, Anthony Nations
and Ronnie Pickering; two step-children, Dana DeCosta-Peiler and Brent Simmons, and eight grandchildren.
Robin is also survived by her husband, Rondal Simmons, whom she happily married on March 11, 2012 in Brandon, Mississippi.
Robin worked for the Mississippi school system for 25 years, retiring in the summer of 2013. After retiring,
she and Rondal moved to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. She was an avid outdoor person and enjoyed hiking and backpacking.
Prior to her and Rondal getting married they hiked 40+ miles of the Appalachian Trail in the Smoky Mountain National Park
(and still got married!). Robin also enjoyed motorcycle riding, bass fishing, swimming, boating and running.
She really enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends. She was an accomplished fourth-degree black belt in Isshinryu
Karate and ran her own Dojo in Brookhaven, MS for nine years.
Robin and Rondal recently joined the Appalachian Bear Rescue in Townsend, TN as volunteers.
Robin enjoyed riding the back roads and loved seeing bears in the wild.
Rondal respectfully asks that in lieu of flowers,
please honor her memory by donating to this cause at https://appalachianbearrescue.org/.
