(June 13, 1935-December 28, 2004)

Barbara R. Robbins, 69, Hannawa Falls, formerly of Watertown and Chaumont, died Dec. 28 at MetroHealth Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. Robbins was a registered nurse for 38 years, graduating in 1956 from the former Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Watertown. After working in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, she returned in 1982 to Mercy Hospital, where she worked until 1994. During her last two years at Mercy, she was a certified alcoholism counselor.

She owned and operated Barbara’s Maternity Shop on Public Square in Watertown from 1985 to 1988. She volunteered as an HIV-AIDS educator and disaster services worker with the Black River Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, Watertown, including traveling to Long Island in December 1991 during storm-surge flooding. She also was a member of the Jefferson County Democratic Committee in 1992.

Born June 13, 1935, in Massena, daughter of Francis and Marcella Marden Connelly, she graduated in 1953 from Norwood-Norfolk Central School, Norwood.

She married J. W. Healey of Hardy, Neb., in 1960. They had a son and two daughters. The marriage ended in divorce.

A marriage to Robert D. Ryan also ended in divorce.

She married Carlton J. "Carl" Robbins on Oct. 26, 1997, in Las Vegas, Nev. They lived in Chaumont until his death April 8, 2001.

Mrs. Robbins moved to Hannawa Falls in 2003 and was temporarily living in Ohio with her son and his family while undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer, with which she had been diagnosed in August.

Surviving besides her son and his wife, Joseph Healey and Eileen Seeholzer, Westlake, Ohio, and her daughters, Sandra "Sandi" Hood, Dunedin, Fla., and Diane Faylo, Adams Center, are four sisters and three brothers-in-law, Theresa and Art Perkins, Colton, Joan and Tom Warren, Blasdell, and Trish and Ken Potocar and Phyllis Hipp, all of Norwood; three brothers and their wives, Richard and Gilda Connelly, Baldwinsville, Lawrence and Margaret Connelly, Norfolk, and Robert and Lee Connelly, Mattydale, and a grandson.

Three sisters, Mary Catherine Connelly, Helen Mahoney and Sarah "Sally" LaBarge, died before her.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Jan. 29 at the Church of the Visitation, Norfolk, with the Rev. Andrew J. Amyot officiating.

Arrangements were with Jenkins Funeral Chapel, Westlake, Ohio.

(From the Sunday, January 9, 2005 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page B5).

(The Connelly family lived for many years on Cedar Street, Norwood).