Ms. Evelyn Ann Robinson Diggs known to family and friends as “Cookie” was born on December 17, 1957, to the late Thomas Eugene and Willie B. Tillman Robinson and was called home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at Richmond County Hospice – Haven in Rockingham, NC surrounded by her family.

Cookie attended the public schools of Anson County where she played basketball in middle school and graduated from Bowman Senior High School in 1976. After graduating high school, she went to work in textiles, and she also was a bus driver for the Anson County school system for a short time. Her last employment was with Hornwood, Inc., in Lilesville, NC where she worked until her health started declining.

As a young child she attended Sunday School at Womble Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in the Pee Dee Community because her father was a Methodist and he attended Sunday School every Sunday. If you lived in his house, Sunday School was a must as a child. Cookie’s mother was a Baptist, so as a teenager, she attended Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church where she gave her life to Christ in 1970 and joined Rock Hill under the leadership of the late Rev. George Thomas. She was a youth usher and a choir member under the tutelage of the late Deacon Rufus Wall.

Cookie was a “no nonsense” type of person, she said what she had to say and she meant what she said. She was the type of person that said what everyone else wanted to say but did not say. Cookie loved to cook and her greatest joy was her family. She adored her nephew Barry and niece Sabrina and spent countless of hours with them when they were younger. Her “Mini Me” is her daughter Kesha and her grandchildren Keshawn and A’Mya who were the joy in her life and she was extremely proud of them both and they held a special place in her heart.

Years prior, after her release from rehabilitation, Cookie moved in with her sister Thomasina, and there she resided until she passed. Living with her sister, her daughter and her grandchildren proved to be essential to her recovery. And as a family, they came together to make sure her every need was met.

Cookie’s parents proceeded her in death as well as her brother George Robinson.

Cookie leaves behind, her daughter Turkesha Stanback, her grandchildren Keshawn Stanback and A’Mya Teal, and her sister Thomasina Melvin (all of the home), step-daughter Kimberly Little (Jon) (Greensboro, NC), husband Henry Diggs (Lilesville, NC), sister-in-law Diane Robinson (Lilesville, NC), one nephew Barry Robinson (Charlotte, NC), one niece Sabrina Robinson (Lilesville, NC), one great-nephew Zadrian Robinson (Lilesville, NC), one aunt, Ineda Terry (Lilesville, NC), one aunt-in-law, Roberta Tillman (Lilesville, NC), a best cousin/sister Alberta R. Ratliff (Lilesville, NC), and good friends (Juanita R Short, Melinda McRae, Jamie Goodson and Retha Bennett) and a host of cousins, relatives and friends.

The Homegoing Services will be on Saturday, May 24, 2025, 11:00am, Smith's Memorial Chapel, 604 Salisbury Street, Wadesboro, North Carolina. Interment will follow the service in the family plot of the Robinson Family Cemetery, Lilesville, North Carolina. The family visitation will be from 10:30-11:00am on Saturday.

The public viewing will be on Friday, May 23, 2025 from 2:30-5:30pm.