Pansy Robison, Sundance, WY died Monday, Nov 2, in comfort care at the Sundance Hospital at the age of 92 of natural causes and advanced years. At her request, there will be no funeral service and cremation has taken place.   A graveside gathering will be scheduled by the family sometime in the near future.

Pansy was born to Tony and Mary Francisco on the Francisco homestead 10 miles north of Boyes, Montana, in Powder River County on March 14, 1928.  She attended Hay Creek School,  2 miles from home, and then attended 9th grade at Broadus High School.  She boarded in town to attend high school.  She later completed her GED.

She left home at 15, went to Miles City, Montana, where she worked as a waitress for about a year, then she and a friend moved to Rapid City, again to work as a waitress.  She met Max Pannetier in Rapid City,  and they were married in January 1947.  She worked  as a bookkeeper, and then as a night auditor at the Sheraton/Alex Johnson Hotel.  Together Pansy and Max had 3 children, and they later divorced in 1970. Over the years in Rapid City she worked at numerous businesses, including Knecht Lumber, Fairmont Creamery, McBee Accounting, and at least one of the car dealerships doing bookkeeping; and also at the Embers, Westwood, the Presidents café and dining, and others.    In 1960 the family moved back to the original homestead north of Boyes for several years, where the entire family was engaged in farming and ranching. Three years later Pansy and the children moved back to Rapid City.

In late 1970 she made her way to Tucson, Arizona, where she resided for about a year.  She also lived for a time in Oklahoma, in Billings, Montana, and in Gillette, Wyoming.   She became reacquainted with John Robison, with whom she had begun first grade at the Hay Creek School both at the age of five.  They were married in 1980.  They moved to Deming, New Mexico where they lived for about twelve years, and then moved to Buffalo, Wyoming, on to Ranchester,  and then Moorcroft for several years and in 2006 moved to Helena, Montana, near her son.  In 2017 she relocated to Sundance.

She was a creative seamstress, and did many embroidery, cross stitch, quilting and latch-hook projects.  For many years Pansy had large gardens, canned many foods, and made jams and jellies, many from wild picked berries.

She is survived by her son, Les Pannetier of Helena, Montana;  and by her two daughters, Linda (John Aloisio) Buus of Moorcroft, WY,  and Emilie Rostad of Cheyenne, WY;  by 3 grandsons, Baend and Yuri Buus and Charles Geier; and 3 great grandchildren, Kolby, Ashton and Kennedy Buus.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Tony and Mary Francisco; her sister, Marian Howry Molko;  her  husband, John, in 2003,  and her first husband, Max, in 2009.   She will be buried in Billings, Montana at a later date at the grave site of her parents.

Arrangements are under the care of Fidler-Roberts & Isburg Funeral Chapel of Sundance.

Online condolences may be written at www.fidler-isburgfuneralchapels.com