Charlotte Anne Lawson Santomassimo, 61, of Kings Grant Drive, Richmond, died unexpectedly early Friday morning June 11, 2010 at St. Mary's Hospital.

Charlotte was born in Lynchburg, June 30, 1948, a daughter of the late Samuel Alfred (Slow) and Helen Fay Babcock Lawson. She was a 1965 graduate of Appomattox High School and received her BS in Nursing from MCV School of Medicine in 1970. She served as the Head Nurse on the Medical Floor at MCV Hospital, helped develop St. Mary's Home Health Care Service, then as Director of Nursing for the Department of Corrections of Virginia and recently as Evening Nurse Manager 24-7 Nurse line for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia.

She is survived by several special children whom she loved as if her own grandchildren, Mitchell, Rachael, Travis, Kendall, Makenzie, Gavin, and Holden Lipscomb.

Family and friends will celebrate Charlotte's love of life and people as they remember her together on Tuesday evening, June 15, 2010 from 7-8:30 pm at Robinson Funeral Home.

Funeral Services will be held 3:00 pm Wednesday, June 16, 2010, at the funeral home, by Rev. Gene Beverly with burial to follow in the Babcock Cemetery. A second viewing will be held prior to the funeral service at 1:30 until the start of the service.

Those wising to make memorials please consider The American Heart Association, 2395 South Fork Rd, Appomattox ,Va 24522 or the MCV Alumni Association Scholarship for Nurses.