Barbara Elvira (Hall) Hamlin, a lifelong resident of Norwood, died Monday, February 15, 2021 at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She was 92. Barbara was born March 30, 1928 in Walpole, Massachusetts, the only child of James Cavers and Mary Ada (Butterfield) Hall. She graduated from Norwood High School and worked as a cafeteria worker and librarian at Factory Mutual (now FM Global) in Norwood and also worked at McDonalds and Lechmere. Barbara was a Rainbow Girl in her youth and was an active member of the United Church of Norwood where she sang in the choir, taught Sunday School, and was a former head of the Women’s Guild at the church. Barbara was the wife for 54 years of the late Donald Geoffrey Hamlin Sr., and the mother of the late Donald G. Hamlin Jr. She is survived by her two daughters, Nancy E. Jones, and her husband Eric, and Sandra J. Savage, and her husband Andrew; her three grandchildren, Jessica L. Savage, Dorothy E. Cook, and Melissa A. Savage; and her daughter-in-law Lori Hamlin. Due to covid restrictions services and interment in Highland Cemetery will be private. In lieu of flowers Barbara’s family is asking that donations in her name be made to the Norwood Circle of Hope, PO Box 421, Norwood, MA 02062.
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