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Sally Robinson Yoast
Sally Riggs Robinson Yoast is a 78-year-old grandmother and recent great-grandmother. She and her third husband, John Yoast, were residents of Williamsburg, Virginia. They were happily spending the...view moreSally Riggs Robinson Yoast is a 78-year-old grandmother and recent great-grandmother. She and her third husband, John Yoast, were residents of Williamsburg, Virginia. They were happily spending their senior years together balancing six sets of married children and twenty-four grandchildren between them. This large family extended from Florida to Pennsylvania, with many places in-between.
Their 13-year marriage ended in sadness when John passed away in 2005, leaving Sally a widow for a second time. She still lives in Williamsburg. Sally was born and raised in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Asheville, North Carolina was her childhood home.
The peaceful atmosphere of Southern living in a devoted Christian home instilled a solid foundation in Sally that has sustained her through much suffering. Losing her father at the age of 13 in a sudden and unexpected death
was the first great sadness of her life. When Sally was 19, she married her high school sweetheart. She and Andy lived a seven-year dream marriage going through their college years and Andy’s ROTC military service, which led them to Kitzingen, Germany for two years. During this period in her life,
she traveled extensively throughout Europe, visiting 14countries. Eventually they adopted a precious two-week-old daughter, Lisa.
After a year of family life, and to Sally’s great shock, Andy became disenchanted with marriage and sent Sally and Lisa back to the United States with a one-way ticket. Sally then returned to Asheville with Lisa to live with her mother and stepfather, and while there she suffered through a painful divorce and the trauma of becoming a single mother. After a year of transition and uncertainty, Sally met and married a young divorced dentist from Virginia Beach. Roland Robinson was the father of three young daughters, and together he and Sally began raising their four girls. That number soon increased to six, as they had two sons of their own. After 27 years together and six children, their full life ended with Roland’s death in 1991 from lung cancer,leaving Sally alone once again, this time as a 58-year-old widow.
During this period of widowhood, Sally wrote her first book, Seasons of a Marriage, which was published in 1993. A remarkably frank and inspirational account of her life, the book was widely read. It recounted Sally’s struggles with heartache, guilt and rejection, and demonstrated how courage and fortitude helped her overcome them.
In 1994, Sally met a widowed Presbyterian minister named John Yoast. John had read Seasons of a Marriage and through that experience became interested in Sally. After a courtship of seven months, they were married.
After 13 years of blessed happiness, Sally found herself a widow once again as John went to his eternal rest in 2005.
Throughout the author’s busy life she has had numerous opportunities to travel extensively, both in the United States and abroad.
After her grown children left home, she became a successful businesswoman as a director with Mary Kay cosmetics and as owner (with her husband Roland) of
a wholesale jewelry business, for which they traveled to Taipei and Hong Kong.
She was a soloist in church choirs from an early age and was active in many churches. She also performed in many theater productions.
Sally cherishes her remarkably varied experiences in life, but is most grateful for the moment, at age 33, when she received Christ as her Savior. It was then that she began to work for her Lord in earnest, and since that time has been a Bible teacher and inspirational speaker. Her love of writing has been an inspiration to many and a great fulfillment in her own spiritual adventure.
Her belief in Holy Scripture has become the backbone of her life. In Philippians 3.7, the Apostle Paul, who had been an educated Pharisee, wrote:
“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.”
For Sally, all else in life is worthless compared to the priceless joy of knowing Christ. This book, Been There. Done That., is the product of a lifetime of experience in faith. The author hopes that the lessons she has learned in that life will be an inspiration to others.view less