Barbara "Bobby" Phyllis Locke

Barbara "Bobby" Phyllis Locke of Moultonborough, NH passed away February 26th after a short illness at the age of 96. Born in 1922 in Burlington, VT, she attended Burlington High School and Westbrook Junior College in Westbrook, ME. A proud veteran of WWII, Bobby was a United States Navy W.A.V.E. and worked as a lab technician stationed in Bremerton, WA and at Camp Detrick, MD. She frequently recounted the story of her fellow service members referring to her as a "Ripple" instead of a "Wave" because of her small stature. Bobby married her college sweetheart, Sherman S. Locke when both were on leave from the service in 1944. Sherman and his brother, Richard, ran the L.E. Locke & Son construction company in Lawrence, MA. An active member of the theater community and the Women's Club in Andover, MA after the war, she and Sherman had two children, moving to North Andover in 1957 and Moultonborough, NH in 1975. In Moultonborough, Bobby was the Lay Leader at the Moultonborough United Methodist Church for 15 years. As a certified lay speaker, she participated in the revolving ministry at the Methodist Church in South Tamworth, NH. Serving for forty years at MUMC, she served on most committees at one time or another and was President of the United Methodist Women. Recognizing a need in the community, Bobby also served as the chairman of the committee to build the senior housing community apartments at West Wynde on Route 171 in Moultonborough. The project brought together a diverse group of community members and was funded by HUD and the state of NH. Bobby was predeceased by her husband Sherman, brother William Knight of San Carlos, CA and parents Harold and Alberta Knight of Burlington, VT. She leaves two children: Sheryl Shermane Locke of Minneapolis, MN and Jeffrey Langdon Locke, wife, Danielle, and granddaughter Madelyn M. Locke of The Plains, VA. She also leaves nephews Reid Knight (Sylvia), Richard Locke, Jr ((Gail), Mark Haman (Lee), David Mowry (Suzanne) and nieces, Gail Mowry, Carole Locke Stankatis, Cara Haman, Deborah Locke Somogyi, Carol Knight (C.J), and several favorite grandnieces and grandnephews and their children. A celebration of Bobby's life will be held at the Moultonborough United Methodist Church at 11:00 am on April 29, 2019. A reception will be held starting at 12:15 at the Church Landing in Meredith. Friends of Bobby's from the community are welcome. Bobby enthusiastically loved her family, her friends, Frank Sinatra and the town of Moultonborough.

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Barbara "Bobby" Phyllis Locke

February 24, 1922 - February 26, 2019