Obituary – Barbara Josephine Reese
Barbara Josephine Roese
Pace, FL – Barbara Josephine Roese, 87, of Pace passed away on Aug. 4, 2024 surrounded by family and close friends. Barbara was born in Blountstown to Addie and WM Bond on May 29, 1937. She grew up in Port St. Joe with her grandparents, Benjamin Franklin Hunt and Kate Pace Hunt. She married George Paul Roese Jr. on March 31, 1962.
She loved her work in Pensacola with Wilson Meat Company and Haber Produce Company while also raising six children. Throughout their life, Barbara and her husband, George, were active in contributing to their community through personal sacrifices and environmental actions. She (and George) enjoyed camping at Fort Pickens, fishing, (salt and freshwater), playing cards and games, traveling the United States with her best friends, reading, and “rock-climbing” in Biloxi. Much of this time was spent with their lifelong friends, Don and Voncile Hudson.
Barbara was devoted to her six kids. She was an awesome, fun-loving, dependable, compassionate, and protective mother, wife, and friend. She, like George, had room in her heart for everyone.
She is preceded in death by her late husband, her grandparents, her mother and father, her sister Kathryn Dearing Maguire, her brother John Dearing, and her daughter, Deborah Diane Vann.
Barbara is survived by her five children: George P. Roese, Marcus Wayne Roese, Patty Marie Roese, Crista Lee Roese, Cathy Roese Griffith; nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren; and extended family, The Hudsons.
Barbara’s family wishes to extend their sincere heartfelt thanks to Dr. Navas and his staff at the Medical Center Clinic-West Florida Hospital, her caretakers and friends (Sharon Arsenault and April Strausser), Dr. Bailey and Brent Browning from West Florida Hospital ER, and Lisa, Mom’s nurse with Vitas Hospice at WFH who was with us and said, “Mom has finished her journey.”
Her husband George passed away July 23, 2020. Due to Covid, no memorial was held.
The Roese family would like to welcome friends and family to a memorial and celebration of life for both George and Barbara Roese. It will be held at Woodbine Baptist Church, 4912 Woodbine Road, Pace, FL 32571 on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 11 a.m.
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