Barbara E. Bohn

MARSHFIELD - Barbara Elaine (Medved) Bohn, age 79 of Hollister Hill Road passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 26, 2017, at home with her husband of 54 years.

Born in Gary, Indiana on October 11, 1937, she was the daughter of Paul and Katherine Medved. Barbara attended Horace Mann High School; Ball State University, and Indiana University; and taught at Wirt High School in Gary before moving to Marshfield.

There she raised three children: gardening, canning, freezing, bagging lunches, shopping for back-to-school clothes in the Sears catalogue, and acting as an emotional and educational guide.

Barbara served as both a para-educator and a secretary at Twinfield Elementary, and leaves behind many friends. She was a Justice of the Peace and a polling volunteer. An amateur botanist, she collected myriad grasses, sedges, and ferns; attended Eagle Hill Institute with her botany buddies; identified rare species; and once assisted a researcher interested in her findings.

She read Dickens and Austen and pulled the poems of Robert Frost from the air. She loved travelling to Ireland with Chuck and their friends. She was her husband’s muse and model, gazing into the distance from the center of many a painting. Voted second funniest in her class, Barb was hilarious, and her family thinks that the title should be contested. And she was a walker. Every day, regardless of weather, she took to the woods in pursuit of her hobby, in pursuit of solitude, roaming through the undergrowth or feet of snow. This is how she will be remembered.

Survivors include her husband Charles, their three children and spouses, nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild, her sister Joan, of Staten Island, and Henry.

She was predeceased unexpectedly by her beloved dog Norman, the morning before her passing. He was there to greet her for another walk.

A Mass in celebration of Barbara’s life will be at North American Martyrs Catholic Church, Route 2, Marshfield on Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.

Charitable contributions in her memory can be made to The Marshfield Historical Society, c/o Jacquith Public Library, 122 School Street, Marshfield, VT 05658 or the Jacquith Public Library, 122 School Street, Marshfield, VT 05658.