Hi, My name is Joynell and I am trying to raise money to help Monty pay for  funeral arrangements and unexpected expenses.

One of the biggest challenges of this unsettling time is the isolation we feel as we’re separated from friends and family, all the people for whom we care most deeply, but just being alone is only part of the difficulty. Our sense of remoteness is intensified by a pall of unease we can’t define: Loss and sorrow are also in the air. We fear losing—or we may have already lost—people we love, and when we work up the courage to look beyond our spheres, we see that many people who have made our world better, in big and small ways, have vanished before we were ready to let them go.

Michael was one of them!!

Michael was in the hospital for 8 weeks undergoing LOTS of tests and procedures after being diagnosed with Covid and then pneumonia trying to get him over the bump.

Michael was a wonderful man with lots of friends. Monty could not talk about him enough he was loved dearly and he loved tremendously.

If we as a community can come together to support our friend in this time of need since all these expenses are going to be rolling in soon, it would be a great help.

Michael Francis Robideau, 68, of Tyler, Texas died January 10, 2022 after a short illness.

Michael Francis Robideau was born on February 4, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  After graduating high school in Levittown, Pennsylvania, Mike served 11 years in the United States Navy.  He was a retired business owner and restaurateur. Mike lit up the room, loved making everyone smile, and adored spending time with his family and was recently proud to welcome his second grandchild to the world. 

Mike was preceded in death by his father, Lawrence Anthony Robideau of Naples, Florida and will be joined in heaven by sister Patricia Regina Gifford of Mount Holly, New Jersey. He is survived by his partner John Montgomery Ethridge of Tyler, Texas, his daughter Jennifer Anne Jackson of Los Angeles, California; son Michael Anthony Robideau of Berlin, Germany; grandchildren Juniper Hania Jackson and Heath Cyril Jackson of Los Angeles, California; his mother Joanne Ruth Smith of Lakeland, Florida; sisters Karen Grace Godin of Phenix City, Alabama, and Ruth Joan Robideau of Lakeland, Florida; and brothers Paul Timothy Robideau of Miami, Florida, and James Andrew Robideau of Saybrook, Ohio; and many nieces and nephews.