Barbara Ann Jackson Koerber (1929-2007)

KOERBER, JACKSON

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 5/18/2007 at 17:30:26

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, May 18, 2007.

Barbara Ann Jackson Koerber died Sunday, May 13, at her home in Sequim, Wash. She will be remembered for her political involvement as well as for her family ties.

Born in Indianapolis in 1929, Koerber contracted polio in 1950 while in nursing school. She recovered in Warm Springs, Ga., where she married George Koerber in 1951, who has survived her and resides in Sequim. Their three children are also surviving: Anne, of Oak Park, Ill., Laura, of Shelton, Wash., and Greg, of Appleton, Wis. She also has two grandchildren, Katherine Elise, of San Francisco, and Emily Marie, of Minneapolis.

Koerber lived with her family in Ames from 1959 to 1983, where George taught at Iowa State University. While raising a family, Barbara was active in the Iowa League of Women Voters, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames (she was president in 1966), and the Democratic Party of Iowa. She ran for the state legislature in 1971. She served on the Ames City Council for six years in the late '60s and early '70s. She was appointed first deputy county auditor of Story County and served in that post until 1983, when she retired and she and George moved to Sequim.

While in Sequim, George and Barbara have both been active members of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Sequim. Barbara also served two terms as Trustee for the Peninsula Community College of District No. 1 in Port Angeles, Wash.

She taught her children to be politically active and involved. She led a full life and will be missed.

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