Bob Robbins Wife: Who Is Susan Robbins?

Renowned country radio disc jockey Bob Robbins, best known for his 34-year tenure on KSSN 96 FM, died Saturday, may 21, 2022, aged 78, according to a news release from the radio station.

Robbins leaves behind his wife, Susan whom he married on March 4, 1977 and have two children with, a daughter, and a son.

Much is not known about Robbins’ wife.

According to Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Robbins, born Robert Spears, has been a daily presence on Arkansas radio since 1967, when he began work at KAAY in Little Rock, earning the name most knew him by after he took over for an employee named Rob Robbins who died in an accident.

Robbins was born in Florida and adopted by an Air Force officer after his parents’ deaths.

Robbins got his first radio job at 14 with Armed Forces Radio in Morocco, where his father was based.

Robbins’ first music show was a polka program, he told Country Aircheck in a 2008 interview.

Most Arkansans probably know Robbins for his time at KSSN, the Little Rock-based station where he would become a familiar folksy voice to many who had never met him in person.

During his time at KSSN, the station won numerous broadcasting awards, and Robbins was inducted into the Country Radio Broadcasters’ DJ Hall of Fame in 2008.