Name |
Barbara Balas [1] |
Birth |
21 Aug 1935 [2] |
Gender |
Female |
Witness-Obituary |
18 Jan 1989 |
Dayton, Ohio [3] |
- Bruce Mabee, 54, of 11 Linwood Drive, Bloomfield, CT, died Tuesday, January 10 at his home. Born in Glasgow, Montana, had lived in Ohio, moving to Bloomfield 13 years ago. He had served in the United States Army. Mr Mabee had a career with the American Red Cross that spanned over 25 years, including 5 years in Japan with the Far Eastern Area Headquarters, he served as Deputy Manager of the Dayton, Ohio Chapter & was Manager for the Greater Hartford Chapter & the Connecticut Division of the American National Red Cross. Prior to his retirement, he had worked for the Prudential Insurance Company. He was a former member of the Windsor Jesters Board of Directors. He leaves his wife, Barbara (Balas) Mabee of Bloomfield; two sons, Michael B Mabee of Wallingford, CT & William E Mabee of Bloomfield; a daughter, Anita E Mabee of West Springfield, MA; a sister Barbara E DeBeauchamp of Nordland, WA; & two grandchildren, Christopher & Sean. Funeral services were held at the Carmon Windsor Funeral Home, Windsor, CT with Rev Garfield Thompson officiating. Burial in Mountain View Cemetery, Bloomfield, CT.
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Residence |
2007 |
Bloomfield, Hartford County, Connecticut [2] |
Death |
9 Jun 2020 |
Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut [1] |
Obituary |
6 Aug 2020 |
Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut [4] |
- Barbara Mabee (Balas), 84, entered Heaven on June 9, 2020 and hopefully found her husband Bruce who had been previously admitted in 1989. She left her three children, Michael, Bill and Anita to contend with six grandchildren: Chris, Sean, Alex, Time, Philip and Rosalynn as well as three great-grandchildren: Wyatt, Charley and John.
Barbara was born in 1935 and grew up in Virginia and Maryland during World War II. She delighted her family with stories of growing up during this time, saving tin cans to get in to the movies, and even seeing the civil war veterans sitting at the town green.
Barbara went on to College at American University where she majored in English and met her future husband Bruce before he shipped off to Korea with the U.S. Army. They married in 1959. Over the years, they lived in Japan, Silver Springs, Maryland, Beavercreek, Ohio and Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Barbara was an accomplished writer, and for many years wrote a weekly column for the Beavercreek News: "Confessions of a Beavercreek Housewife," later, "Confessions of an Honest Housewife." Barbara worked at Parkwood Elementary School in Beavercreek, Ohio and in Connecticut she worked for the Bloomfield Public Schools, at Saint Joseph's College and laterer at Aetna.
Barbara also had a passion for theater. She was an accomplished actress, director, playwright, stage manager (and everything else) for many years with the Windsor Jesters.
She loved her church - St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Bloomfield, CT. She sang in the choir, worked on the vestry and wrote the newsletter at various times - she absolutely adored all her fellow congregants.
Friends gathered on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, at the Carmon Windsor Funeral Home, 807 Bloomfield Ave., Windsor, to share funny stories, hopefully laugh, and pay their respects. Burial was private.
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Reference Number |
19969 |
Person ID |
I19862 |
Maybee Society |
Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |