Susan C. Robbins

1947 - 2022

Susan C. Robbins left this world on Saturday, July 30 at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. She was born Susan Lee Canfield on March 12, 1947 in Springfield, Mass., and was predeceased by her parents Arthur A. Canfield and LouCinda Rhett Hobbs Canfield. Susan grew up in the family home on Halladay Avenue in Suffield and graduated from the high school in 1965. She received an Associates in Art degree from Bay Path Junior College in 1967 and worked as a media graphic artist in Miami, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. After returning to Suffield later in life, she became an active member of the Suffield Garden Club and volunteered for the Zion Hill Cemetery Association, becoming its secretary in 2022. She enjoyed visiting the senior center and sometimes worked on election day at the polls. Her love of cats, especially Fii and Leo, is best expressed by the sign that hung in her kitchen: "No outfit is complete without cat hairs". She is survived by sisters, Joyce Hemingson of Colebrook; Jeanne Brousseau and partner Nat Birdsall of Penobscot, Maine; niece, Layla Hobbs of Bangor, Maine; nephews, Sean Brousseau of Windham, Maine, Craig Brousseau of Penobscot, Maine and Nathan Hemingson of New Hartford. She was the great aunt of Helen and Victor Hemingson and Hayden and Delainey Brousseau. She also leaves behind many caring cousins, neighbors, gardening friends and high school classmates. Family and friends are invited to the burial service on Saturday, September 10 at 11:30 am at the Zion Hill Cemetery at 1217 Hill Street in Suffield, followed by a reception in the First Baptist Church of Suffield at the same location. Memorial donations may be made to the Suffield Garden Club, PO Box 164, Suffield CT 06078 or to the Zion Hill Cemetery Association, c/o Treasurer, Norm Noble, 1522 North Grand Street, West Suffield, CT 06093. Nicholson & Carmon Funeral Home have care of arrangements. To leave on-line condolences please visit www.carmonfuneralhome.com