Dreier, Barbara ”Bobbie” Loines (1907-2006)

DREIER, WILKIE

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 6/23/2007 at 21:50:29

Fairfield Ledger
Mon., March 20, 2006

Barbara Loines DREIER of Fairfield, Iowa, or “Bobbie” DREIER as she was known to many, died peacefully at home on March 6, 2006 after more than two years of coping with cancer. She was 99 years old.

Bobbie was born on February 18, 1907 in New York City. During her childhood she spent winters in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, New York, and summers at Lake George, NY, and at Martha’s Vineyard Island in Massachusetts.

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928 with an AB in English Literature and History of Art. Shortly thereafter she married Theodore DREIER and joined him, as they raised four children, in an enterprising and varied life.

Bobbie is survived by her daughter, Barbara Beate DREIER, of Fairfield, Iowa; her son Theodore DREIER, Jr, of Belmont, Massachusetts; her sister, Margot Loines WILKIE, of New York City; four grandchildren; one great granddaughter; four nieces; two nephews; and numerous grandnieces and grandnephews.

A memorial service was held in Fairfield, Iowa, on March 11, 2006.

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