While living in Japan she took a cake decorating class and her children couldn’t wait to devour her weekly creations. She took great delight in making her chocolate no-bake cookies for her brothers. She always said her secret was the special cookie sheet her father made for her in the 1950s. Her family was very proud of these accomplishments.īarbie was an avid baker and well known for her whoopie pies and frosted sugar cookies.

Many summer trips were taken to Bar Harbor with her sister Nancy and friend Pat.Īfter being a homemaker for many years, Barbara started her working career in several clothing stores and ultimately opened Barbara T’s Clothing and Barbara T’s Tanning Salon in downtown Bath. She made each place a home and raised three children along the way.īarbara and Charles continued their travels after his retirement from the Air Force and enjoyed trips to Florida and Hawaii. She was a proud Air Force wife and loved her travels during Charles’ career, living in Georgia, Maine, Kansas, Japan and Arizona, ultimately returning to Bath upon his retirement in 1973. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary prior to Charles’ passing in 2014.

She was known to many as Barbie.īarbara married Charles (Sonny) Tibbetts on March 6, 1954. She was born in Woolwich, Maine on June 30, 1934, daughter of John and Thelma (Stimpson) Hudson and was one of eight children. Barbara Ann (Hudson) Tibbetts, 89, of Bath, died Sunday, September 10, 2023.

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