Robbie Lynn Fritts

Robbie Deane Lynn Fritts, 95, passed away at the Willows Legacy of Hamburg in Lexington, KY. Robbie spent her time serving others. From a young age she took on the role of a second mother to her five siblings after the passing of her father when she was 13. As she grew older, she and her husband Donald T. Fritts opened Fritts Drug Store, in Morganfield, where she was bookkeeper for 30 plus years. Prior to that she worked at the Kentucky State Employment Office for 16 years in Frankfort, Mayfield and Henderson. Robbie also served as a teacher, starting in the one room schoolhouses of the Sullenger and Hebron Schools and then continuing to teach at the Morganfield First Baptist Church where she taught the four-year-old Sunday School Class and led and WMU. Robbie loved all of her ‘families’ starting with the family she grew up with and extending to the family she and Donald T. built together. She was a loving daughter and sister, wonderful wife, caring mother and a doting grandmother. This caring continued to her extended “families” -her church family and the family at Fritts Drug Store. Robbie was special in that she never met a stranger and would often make attempts to find connections with each person she encountered. She was an avid reader, lifetime UK Basketball fan, and extremely skilled needle crafter.

Survivors include her children, Donna (Ken) Fritts Armstrong of Lexington KY and John Fritts of North Hollywood, CA; grandchildren, Beck and Ashley Armstrong; sister, Lois Lynn Anderson of Louisville, KY and brother, Fred Lynn of Salem, KY. 

She is preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Donald T. Fritts; parents, William and Wilma Lynn, siblings, Charles Lynn, Dorothy Lynn Wade and Billy Ray Lynn; brother-in-law, Bob Anderson and sisters-in-law, Sally Lynn, Betty Lynn and Jeanne Lynne. 

Funeral services are scheduled for 1pm Friday January 31, 2025, at Morganfield First Baptist Church in Morganfield, KY. The family will receive visitors from 11 am until service time at 1 pm at the church. Gilbert Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements. 

The family wants to thank caretakers at the Willows Legacy in Lexington and asks that donations be made to the Morganfield First Baptist Church Missions programs.