Judy Robinson

On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, God peacefully called Judy Ann Robinson home to rest. Judy was born on January 27, 1947, in Washington, D.C., the fifth child of Mr. Edward Hembry and Mrs. Frankie Marie Hembry. She attended Warren County Public Schools in Virginia. Judy graduated from Criser Highschool in 1964. This was a special year for Judy as she met and married Richard Leroy Stribling of Front Royal, Virginia. God blessed this union with three beautiful children Richard, Twyla, and Angela.

A devoted wife and mother, Judy supported her family by beginning her career with the Fairfax County Government as a maintenance team member in 1969. Equipped with endless industriousness and fortitude, Judy was a trailblazer who rose to become the evening shift supervisor in just a few short years. Not one for wasting time, Judy relocated the family to Falls Church, Virginia, and became co-owner and assistant manager of Action Cleaning Service. Her entrepreneurial spirit never waned, and she remained dedicated to her family. As a result, she harnessed her skills and opened Judy’s Janitorial Service as Owner and Operator in 1979. This time it was a family affair. Judy taught her children the cleaning business from how to clean, bid on contracts, interview potential employees, prepare payroll, and handle customer complaints. She was generous with her professional knowledge and acumen sharing it with neighborhood teens she recruited to work part time in her company. Indeed, Judy was an inspiration.

To start a new adventure, Judy relocated her family to Oklahoma City, OK in 1981. She had multiple administration jobs there, which enabled her to support her children through high school. After Richard, Twyla and Angela graduated from high school, Judy returned to Centreville, Virginia, in 1990. Always a businessperson, Judy promptly opened Judy’s Cleaning Service upon her return. One of her many amazing gifts was her ability to find commonality and make friends with everyone she met, again creating a successful enterprise. It also helped her love life as she met, became friends, and fell deeply in love with George M. Robinson Jr. They married on September 15, 1996 and spent 26 beautiful years together.

Judy always had a perpetual, strong belief in and love of the Lord. Through her actions, mankind saw Christ in her. In 2017, Judy was baptized and became a devoted member of One God Ministries of Fairfax, Virginia.

Judy was a light in this world. Well known for her strength, fiery spirit, and generous heart. She was the true matriarch of her family. A caregiver and provider, Judy helped numerous people with housing, home care, hospice care, clothes, and food. Her greatest spiritual gifts were the gifts of compassion and service to others. Everything she had; she would share with anyone who would ask. Constantly welcoming visitors, Judy’s home was a comforting, and a safe haven for countless people throughout the years. Anyone who knew Judy knew she was a lover of people and animals, especially dogs, owning several during her lifetime. Even when she played her beloved Bingo, she would share her winnings with her friends. To her, friends were family too and she loved them just the same.

Judy was preceded in death by her mother and father, Edward, and Frankie Marie Hembry, her two brothers, Eugene and Edward Hembry, her sister Margarette Tigney, her stepchild Ada Young and Richard Leroy Stribling Sr.

Judy leaves to cherish her memory, her husband, George M. Robinson Jr., her children: Richard Stribling Jr., Twyla Stribling, and Angela Almond, her granddaughter Desiree Almond, her stepchildren: Marie Niles, Wendell Robinson, George M. Robinson III (Ocean), and Gregory Robinson (Karen), her siblings: James Hembry and Linda Mae Scott, and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, extended family, and friends.