Barbara Jean Elliott May 9,1936 - December 31, 2014

摘要

"Some-body's been to Sani-bel," I said out loud, looking at the glass jar of shells on a desk in the new office where I would be working in Andover, Massachusetts. "How did you know that?" she said from behind me. It was Barbara Elliott. Thus began a thirty-one year friendship. Barbara and I shared a mutual boss at the Internal Revenue Service Center. With our other mutual interest in shells, we began having lunches together and quickly included our respective spouses in the friendship, my Gayle and her John. Barbara Jean had worked for a trucking company as a secretary and dispatcher. Talking on the radio with the drivers in and around Colorado is how she came to know her future husband, John. Although they had no children together, John had two daughters by a previous marriage. After their marriage, Barbara took on the role of step-mother.