Produce, a wholesaler where Mr. Robinson would stop every morning at 6 to shoot the breeze and gather the day’s goods. His father, Nathan Robinson, known as Okra Man, delivered fruits and vegetables by wheelbarrow and horse and buggy. Still, on Sunday afternoons, he would bring groceries to some of the elderly people he knew, Ms. Robinson said. In recent years, Mr. Robinson was the subject of an award-winning documentary titled “Mr. Besides her, his survivors include six sons and another daughter as well as “a bunch of grandchildren,” Ms. Robinson said.

Source: New York Times February 19, 2018 21:22 UTC