Barbara S. Rochon

Barbara Susan (Jacobs) Rochon, a resident of Wrentham for over 20 years, died Sunday April 23, 2023 at her home in Wrentham surrounded by her loving family. She was 66. Babs was born September 23, 1956, the youngest of the three daughters of Frank J. and Rosemary (Sabella) Jacobs. She grew up on Loring Street in Westwood and graduated from Westwood High School with the Class of 1974. She went on to earn her Master’s degree in Education from Lesley College and taught mathematics at the Ahern Middle School in the Town of Foxboro. She was an avid tennis player who participated in numerous tennis competitions, and was a member of the Charles River Tennis Club in Medway. Babs enjoyed card games, including cribbage, running, hiking with her dog, and was a talented cook, even working as a Pampered Chef consultant. She was very involved in the school community and served as the treasurer for her teacher’s union. Barbara is survived by her husband of 22 years, Paul Frederick Rochon; her two daughters, Jillian Elizabeth Burnham of Plainville, and Korrina Ann Bucci, and her husband Jeremy, of Deerfield; her sisters, Geraldine Margaret Tessicini, and her husband Richard, of Medway, and Linda Marie Jacobs, and her husband Robert “Rudy” Rudner, of Needham; as well as her grandson, Charlie L. Bucci. Visiting hours will be held Friday, April 28th from 5 to 8 pm at the Folsom Funeral Home, 649 High Street, Westwood. Relatives and friends are invited to gather at the funeral home, Saturday, April 29th starting at 9 am and proceed with us to St. Denis Church for her Mass of Christian Burial at 10 ‘o’clock. Interment will follow in New Westwood Cemetery. Flowers are welcome, and any other contributions can be made to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in memory of Barbara Rochon at: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284 or via dana-farber.org/gift.