Robin Rae Coleman

Beloved by all who knew her, Robin Rae (Crank) Coleman of South Lake Tahoe, California, age 67, passed away on December 5, 2022 at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California after a long struggle with heart disease. She was born November 22, 1955 in Fort Smith, Arkansas where she graduated from Northside High School. She attended Westark Community College and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, earning a Bachelor's degree in accounting in 1975. In 1983 she married William Gilbert Coleman in Little Rock. Robin served as a certified public accountant for several consulting firms in Arkansas, for Senior Healthcare Inc. in Silver Spring, Maryland and Citicorp LLC in San Francisco. She soon changed careers, earning a certificate in Alcohol and Drug Counseling from UC Berkeley in 1999, then a Master's degree in counseling psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sophia University) in 2002. She served as residential house counselor for the Women's Recovery Association from 1998 to 2002, after which she retired to raise her three children. During that time Robin's volunteer work included Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies in San Francisco, Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek, and Nine Lives Foundation in Redwood City. She and her husband were co-founders (with Kent Sandvik) of the Ocean of Compassion Buddhist Center in Campbell, California. Robin also served San Mateo County as a door-to-door enumerator for the 2010 U.S. census and as a poll worker from 2010 to 2016. She is survived by her mother, Regina Mae McClure, brother Christopher Donald Crank, husband William and her children, William Nathaniel Hunt Coleman, Christopher Aaron Sinclair Coleman and Lily Catherine Claire Coleman. Memorials can be made in Robin's name via Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel, California, at the following web address: https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/donation-page/.