Roberta Ruth Peacock

Roberta Ruth “Robin” Peacock passed peacefully on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at age 84 in Tigard, Oregon, while residing at Golden Gate Adult Care Home, in the same room where her beloved husband, Dr. Willis Edward “Bill” Peacock, M.D., passed nearly fourteen years earlier, on March 16, 2012.

Robin was born July 8, 1941, in Seattle, Washington the eldest daughter of Captain Richard and Barbara Hill. She was named after her grandfather, Robert C. Hill, a Scottish immigrant, with whom she shared not only a name but also a birthday—a connection she cherished. Though her early years were spent in Seattle, Robin’s heart always considered Los Altos, California to be home, where she formed lifelong friendships beginning in the fifth grade that endured throughout her life.

Those relationships endured through the years via letters, phone calls, visits, and class reunions for Los Altos High School. Robin wasn’t a star student scholastically, but what she lacked in grades, she made up for in her artistic flair and creativity in making the most beautiful clothes and dresses. Her artistic talent won her the design competition for the City of Los Altos crest.

After graduation, she took a job with Kemper Insurance in San Francisco, where she worked with her father, whom she lovingly knew as “Pops.” They shared the commute into the city until about the time of her marriage. She was all of 19 years old and was seriously thinking of pursuing a life in business, but life led her in a new direction, as it so often does. Summers were spent living with her grandparents, William and Ruth Enschede, in Hillsboro. They lived very near Shute Park, with the swimming pool a popular destination. It was there that Robin met her future husband, Richard Albert Faulkner (known as Dick to his friends and family). Their friendship led them to become sweethearts, and in time they married in the old Congregational Church in Hillsboro, where her great-grandfather had been the pastor years before. Their life as newlyweds began at NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, where Dick served in the United States Navy. Robin loved Hawaii and embraced being “Hawaiian,” even if only for a season, cherishing those memories and that sense of identity throughout her life. Later, they were stationed at NAS Whidbey Island before settling in Sunnyvale, California, after Dick’s discharge from the Navy, where they began their family.

Robin and Dick welcomed two sons, Richard Russell Faulkner and, two years later, Robert Jay Faulkner. In the years that followed, the family moved throughout the Pacific Northwest in connection with Dick’s career as an air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation

Administration, living in Auburn, Washington; Cornelius and Eugene, Oregon; and eventually settling in Roy, Oregon. Though Roy would become their longest residence, Los Altos remained the place Robin always considered home.

Her years living in Roy were the source of great joy and devotion, but not without troubles.

Robin’s marriage to Dick sadly ended in divorce in 1986, whereupon Robin moved to Beaverton. This is the season when she met her future second husband, Dr. Willis “Bill” Peacock, M.D., at a social event at the Living Enrichment Center. Following a brief courtship, they married and shared a devoted and loving life together, eventually making their home on the green at Summerfield. It was as though they had both been given a second chance. Indeed, that’s exactly what happened, and it’s there they enjoyed their remaining years together.

Robin was a woman of depth, great presence, quiet strength, and devotion. Strong-willed and principled, her greatest joys were found in her marriage and the home she lovingly kept. Her childhood friendships with Chuck Taylor and Sharon Sicklesteel were unique in that they were lifelong, since fifth grade, and deeply formative to her identity.

Robin is survived by her sisters, Linda Deskins and Colleen Barnes, and her husband Bill; her first husband, Dick Faulkner; her sons, Richard Faulkner and his wife, Penny, and their sons, Casey, Ricky, and Alex Faulkner, as well as her youngest son, Robert “Jay”

Faulkner.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Willis Edward Peacock, M.D.; and her parents, Captain Richard Hill and Barbara Hill.

A memorial service will be held at Willamette National Cemetery, where she will be laid to rest alongside her beloved Bill, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 1:15 p.m.

Robin will be remembered as a powerful advocate and conservator, especially as the mother of a special needs son, a gifted seamstress, and a devoted wife, mother, and homemaker. She was a woman of great complexity and strength who, though often misunderstood in life, devoted herself to advocating for and caring for her family.More than that, she will be remembered for the people God brought into her life, the blessings He poured into her life, and the truth of His love for her—that even when we stray, He loves us anyway. He always has, and He always will. We rejoice in this.

Love wins!