Robin A. Bolduc

May 24, 1956 - June 16, 2020 Robin Ann (Meldrum) Bolduc left this world with family by her side, passing peacefully in her home after a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma in October 2019. Robin was kind-hearted and keenly intelligent all through her life. She was known for being exceptionally strong, always providing a steady and reliable presence for others. She had a signature calm and a loving nature that took life as it came. Born in Inglewood, at Daniel Freeman Hospital, Robin attended Dacotah Street Elementary School in LA, before moving to Orange County in the early 60s, where she attended Faylane Elementary School, Lake Jr. High, and Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove. Throughout her life, she excelled in sports, playing varsity volleyball, basketball, and track at USC, which she attended from 1973 – 1975. She graduated from Cal State Fullerton with an accounting degree in 1981. With a strong work ethic and career ambition, Robin worked her way up in the accounting field, along the way finding herself the first female Plant Manager in Watts Water Technologies' history. She was a role model to the women of her family, showing the younger generation that anything was possible and that glass ceilings could be shattered. Her career brought many achievements, challenges, and travels, including Australia, China, Canada, and various locations across Europe and the U.S. She worked in several places, from Orange County to Palmdale to Boston, and back to Southern California, where she worked for Emtek/Assa Abloy till the edge of retirement, when illness interrupted.While dedicated to her career, Robin's greatest love and dedication was always to her family. Robin enjoyed attending her daughter's plays and concerts, as well as her son's baseball games throughout his life and took even greater joy in attending her grandsons' games. She took great pleasure in being a grandmother and in being a steady life partner to her husband, Mike, of 45 years. Robin's other enjoyments included being an avid sports fan- of football, basketball, and especially of Angels baseball. She remained active in sports as an adult, playing in volleyball, softball, and golf leagues. She also loved music, concert-going, and public gardens.A "natural woman," Robin gave herself authentically to the world. She was just as comfortable in a business suit as in a velour sweat suit- in boarding a plane in China as netting a trout in the Sierra at her favorite fishing spot, off Highway 395, at the Lakeshore Cabins at Upper Twin Lakes. She and Mike made a wonderfully efficient fishing team and enjoyed their many visits to the cabins across decades. She was a wonderful traveling companion to Mike on countless road trips throughout the country. Robin was a good navigator- of maps, and of life. She was wise, down to earth, and relatable, with a great sense of humor and modesty. She was many things to many people: devoted wife, supportive mother, adoring grandmother, inspiring aunt, loving daughter, and caring sister. She was, as one doctor who knew her best said, "a delightful human being." She loved and provided for her family selflessly.Robin is preceded in death by her father, Thomas Meldrum and her stepfather, Robert Bennett. She is survived by her husband, Mike Bolduc; mother, Helen Bennett; children, Demian (Tika) Bolduc and Ariane (Aaron) Prinz, and siblings Geoff Bennett, Deborah Parker, and Valerie Cone. Robin was also the proud grandmother of Ethan and Dylan Bolduc. Gifts in Robin's memory can be made to the American Cancer Society.