1938
Barbara
2024
Barbara (Robarge) Moore
June 7, 1938 — December 30, 2024
Barbara Moore Obituary
A friend might describe Barbara as bright, beautiful, deep, sensitive, loyal, and fun-loving. Barbara’s penchant for reading, gardening, and pets belies her genius IQ, empathy, and kindness. Barbara spent her early years raising three children - and moving. She spent her middle years working, mostly as an intrepid salesperson, and settling in. Barbara spent her later years helping her children to raise her grandchildren - and moving again.
Organically benevolent, Barbara loved church-oriented communities, almost all New England small towns, and most of all, music in its many genres and iterations. Barbara was adventurous, resilient, and capable of overcoming almost any circumstance. Always optimistic and finding the best in others, she lived by her own words: if you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say it. Yet, she thrived on conversation, loved her television, and she would travel miles to watch a movie.
Most of all, Barbara loved to laugh and to cleverly quip right up to the end. She had her mother’s grit and gumption and her father’s gentility and kindness. Barbara enjoyed a party, a luncheon, and a wedding. She was as comfortable on the beach as she was atop a Monadnock. Bookshelves in almost every room, Barbara lived in too many houses to mention but began in Longmeadow, settled in Jaffrey, and retired in Duxbury and Stockbridge. A life that spanned remarkable global, historical, and cultural events, Barbara always enjoyed context, nuance, and conversations of consequence. The cat whisperer, the bird feeder, the Beatles lover, the flower grower, the lawn mower, the PBS watcher, and the found-humor joker, Barbara was comfortable in her skin and in her multitude of vests and sweaters. Barbara was “vast” and she did “contain multitudes”. She was loved by many, and she will be missed by all.
Barbara Moore was born on June 7th,1938 in Wellesley, Massachusetts to Royce and Viola Robarge. She died on December 30th, 2024 after a decline related to Alzheimer's. She grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and attended The MacDuffie School for high school. She enrolled and attended Smith College for one year. She married Harlow (Chip) Ide, Jr. in 1957. She was married a second time to William G. Moore in the nineties.
Barbara was predeceased by her parents and second husband. She is survived by her beloved brother Jon and his wife Julie. She is survived by her three children, daughter Lynne Ide and her husband Andy Woodcock, daughter Jennifer Donovan and partner David Papile, and her son Harlow (Ned) Ide, III and his wife Rebecca J. Smith.
Additionally, she is survived by her stepchildren Corky Moore and Missy McCarthy.
Barbara is survived by her seven blessed grandchildren: Dennis Donovan, Carly Brady, Alden Woodcock, Jayne Seguin, Jenny Woodcock, Hana Fuller, and Nathaniel Smith-Ide. She is also survived by two great-grandchildren, Sophia and Halle Seguin.
A Celebration of Life ceremony will be held on June 7th in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Instead of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice in Barbara’s memory.
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A friend might describe Barbara as bright, beautiful, deep, sensitive, loyal, and fun-loving. Barbara’s penchant for reading, gardening, and pets belies her genius IQ, empathy, and kindness. Barbara spent her early years raising three children - and moving. She spent her middle years working, mostly as an intrepid salesperson, and settling in. Barbara spent her later years helping her children to raise her grandchildren - and moving again.
Organically benevolent, Barbara loved church-oriented communities, almost all New England small towns, and most of all, music in its many genres and iterations. Barbara was adventurous, resilient, and capable of overcoming almost any circumstance. Always optimistic and finding the best in others, she lived by her own words: if you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say it. Yet, she thrived on conversation, loved her television, and she would travel miles to watch a movie.
Most of all, Barbara loved to laugh and to cleverly quip right up to the end. She had her mother’s grit and gumption and her father’s gentility and kindness. Barbara enjoyed a party, a luncheon, and a wedding. She was as comfortable on the beach as she was atop a Monadnock. Bookshelves in almost every room, Barbara lived in too many houses to mention but began in Longmeadow, settled in Jaffrey, and retired in Duxbury and Stockbridge. A life that spanned remarkable global, historical, and cultural events, Barbara always enjoyed context, nuance, and conversations of consequence. The cat whisperer, the bird feeder, the Beatles lover, the flower grower, the lawn mower, the PBS watcher, and the found-humor joker, Barbara was comfortable in her skin and in her multitude of vests and sweaters. Barbara was “vast” and she did “contain multitudes”. She was loved by many, and she will be missed by all.
Barbara Moore was born on June 7th,1938 in Wellesley, Massachusetts to Royce and Viola Robarge. She died on December 30th, 2024 after a decline related to Alzheimer's. She grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and attended The MacDuffie School for high school. She enrolled and attended Smith College for one year. She married Harlow (Chip) Ide, Jr. in 1957. She was married a second time to William G. Moore in the nineties.
Barbara was predeceased by her parents and second husband. She is survived by her beloved brother Jon and his wife Julie. She is survived by her three children, daughter Lynne Ide and her husband Andy Woodcock, daughter Jennifer Donovan and partner David Papile, and her son Harlow (Ned) Ide, III and his wife Rebecca J. Smith.
Additionally, she is survived by her stepchildren Corky Moore and Missy McCarthy.
Barbara is survived by her seven blessed grandchildren: Dennis Donovan, Carly Brady, Alden Woodcock, Jayne Seguin, Jenny Woodcock, Hana Fuller, and Nathaniel Smith-Ide. She is also survived by two great-grandchildren, Sophia and Halle Seguin.
A Celebration of Life ceremony will be held on June 7th in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Instead of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice in Barbara’s memory.
To send flowers
to the family or plant a tree
in memory of Barbara (Robarge) Moore, please visit our floral store.
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To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Barbara (Robarge) Moore, please visit our flower store.
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