PORTLAND — Barbara Louise Filbin Blood of Brunswick and Weld, ended her long and beautiful life on Aug. 30, 2011 at age 91 at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

She was born April 22, 1920 in Brookline, Mass., the daughter of John William and Mabel Harriet Fogg Filbin. In 1941 she married Henry Winthrop Blood, her husband of 54 years, who predeceased her in 1995. She later married Lawrence “Ozzie” Forbes of Ohio and Weld and Brunswick, who predeceased her in 2007.

Barbara was a graduate of Chamberlain Junior College in Boston. She gave many years of service as a volunteer in hospitals in Pittsfield, Mass. and Rochester, N.H. She was a longtime supporter and former director of the Lake Webb Association in Weld and a member of the First Congregational Church and Historical Society of Weld. She was a passionate environmentalist and choral music enthusiast. As a youngster she played the violin and in her 90s could still sound out a fine rendition of “Taps” on her bugle.

“Meme” is survived by her children, Joan Elizabeth Blood and E. Susan Vine of Boxborough, Mass., Jacqueline Louise and Edward Sherwin of Rye, N.H., Robert Winthrop Blood of Wrentham, Mass., and Ralph Hewes of Amherst, Mass.; and step-children, Anne and Jack Oswald of Londonderry, N.H. She also leaves grandchildren, Joseph Douglas Hewes, Cosima Hewes, Jaketon Hewes, Andrew Henry Stone, Benjamin Stockton Stone, Lee Lloyd Archer, Catherine Elizabeth Sherwin Gupta, Abbie Lynne Sherwin and Daniel Edward Sherwin. She left nine great-grandchildren and siblings, Marion Lois Thornbury of St. Petersburg, Fla. and Richard Fogg Filbin of Amherst, Mass.

Her daughter, Judith Anne Hewes predeceased her in 2010.  Her sister, Ruth Lauriat Pree predeceased her in 2006.