Alan Scott Robinson

By Staff on June 1, 2018

Robinson—Alan Scott Robinson, 67, on February 7, 2018, at Solace Hospice Care in Asheville, N.C., with his husband, David Russell Spicer, and a son, Daniel Robinson, at his side, two hours after a visit from his former partner, Jim Cavener. Alan was born on May 31, 1950, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Dorothy Ada Cromar and Charles Mardee Robinson. He loved learning, often—to his seven‐child family’s distress—locking himself in their one bathroom to read from Encyclopedia Britannica. He studied astrophysics at University of Utah, and🔒

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