After a long and eventful life, Jeanne Hazard Savage Robson, 99, passed away in her apartment at Atria Manresa on February 4, 2017.  Information regarding memorial services in Annapolis, Maryland and West Palm Beach, Florida will be announced later.

Jeanne was born in Detroit, Michigan, July 16, 1917. Her parents divorced when she was young, leaving her mother, Florence St. Clair Savage, to raise her and her younger brother Harry, nicknamed Buddy.  The family moved often as their mother sought employment. Jeanne said she could remember the names of only two of the many schools she attended.  However, as a teenager, she developed a love for skate-dancing.

In the 1930's Jeanne's mother Florence hired a young man to drive them from California to Florida. She and her brother Buddy rode across the continent in the rumble seat of a canary-yellow Packard roadster with blue fenders.

Jeanne and Robert McCombs Robson met in high school and married in 1940. They moved to West Palm Beach and raised four children – Lucia St. Clair, Robert McCombs, Jr. (known as Buddy), Jeanne Randle (Randi) and Mark Stuart.

Jeanne became a Girl Scout leader for her oldest daughter's troop. She took painting courses and her work decorates the homes of family and friends. She was always learning some new craft from mosaics to needlework to basketry, but her first love was music.  She made sure her children were exposed to both music and art.

When her youngest child started middle school, Jeanne enrolled at Palm Beach Junior College. On graduation, she took a job as the data processor at the local high school. When she retired, she and Robert explored the country In a powder-blue VW camper formerly owned by a surfer. They also traveled overseas, and shared life together until Robert died in January of 1997.

Jeanne and Robert were one of about twenty couples who began the Church of the Holy Spirit as a mission in West Palm Beach where she was a member of the Daughters of the King.  She was the first woman to serve as chalice bearer and was elected the first female Senior Warden. After attending Cursillo in Florida she returned often to serve on the staff. In 1983, she completed the program of Theological Education by Extension from The University of the South, School of Theology.

In March of 2006 Jeanne moved to Arnold, MD, to live with her oldest daughter, Lucia. They visited churches in the area, but as soon as they sat in a pew at St. Philip's Episcopal Church on Bestgate Road they felt at home. They loved the new family they found there.  The congregation named her Mother of the Year, and when she could no longer attend services, church members brought communion to her at Manresa.

Jeanne filled a notebook with over a hundred neatly-typed prayers. For many years, until her sight failed, she would read from the notebook each morning.

She started each day's meditations with "This is the day the Lord has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24.