Mary Waldrep Robinson
The granddaughter of a Confederate soldier, Mary Waldrep was born in Forsyth, Georgia. After taking a business course at Tift College, she began work at age 18 as a Meteorologist Assistant for Eastern Air Lines in Atlanta and later transferred to Eastern Airlines in Miami. She spent nine years at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. She married a physician and moved to Los Angeles, California, where she worked for the Department of Defense and attended UCLA.
Mary and her husband moved to Broward County Florida in 1978, where she worked as a Realtor and volunteered for Children’s Home Society and Planned Parenthood. Her last three years there she was a Guardian Ad Litem for Broward County Court.
After moving to Amelia Island she continued her career as a Realtor and was a Board member of Northeast Florida Area Agency on Aging.
In 1999 the couple began spending six months a year in Martin County because her husband was hired as the physician on Jupiter Island, where they became full time residents in Hobe Sound in 2001. Mary joined the Friends of the Hobe Sound Library, serving as President from 2006 through 2008, and later became Team Leader of the Book Depot. She is presently a docent at the Hobe Sound Library. Additional volunteer work includes the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast and volunteering as the photographer for the Jupiter Island Garden Club.
When not at the library, Mary can be found walking her Golden Retriever, reading or boating with her husband Robbie.