LYNN — Mrs. Barbara Lillian (Kirk) Davis, 93, of Lynn, died on Monday March 6, 2017, at the LifeCare Center, Lynn, after a lengthy illness. She was the wife of the late Clifford V. Davis.
Born in Lynn and raised in Ipswich, she was the daughter of the late Chester W. and Dorothy (Spinney) Kirk. She was a graduate of Ipswich High School, Class of 1941, and had earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Boston University in 1945. After living short periods in California, Washington, Salem, and Beverly, she has lived in Lynn since 1952.
Barbara was a teacher for the Lynn School Department for 30 years and retired in 1983. She worked at the Sisson School for many of those years and had volunteered at the Sisson School in Lynn four days per week from 1984 until 2004. The years she volunteered, her only compensation was the satisfaction of helping the little ones with their reading and numbers.
She was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church and of the former Wesley and Maple Street United Methodist Churches. Barbara was also a member of the Sigma Kappa Sorority and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
She leaves “her family by choice”; Marsha and Dean Robinson and family of Lynn. She was also the sister of the late Henry Robert Denning and Chester William Kirk.
Service information: A funeral service will be held on Monday at 11 a.m. in the SOLIMINE Funeral Home 426 Broadway (Rte. 129), Lynn, followed by burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Donations in her memory may be made to a charity of your choice or you could read a story to a child. Directions and guestbook at Solimine.com.