Barbara Joan Yelin

On December 22, 2011, at the young age of 80 years, Barbara Joan Yelin left her life here with us and moved on to her next adventure. After beating pancreatic cancer with an aggressive operation she was cancer free. She put her energy into a vigorous recovery effort; working toward the goal of attending her grandchildren’s Bar Mitzvahs. She will be there for each one in spirit. Those of us that will carry on her memory include her husband of 59 years, Arnold Yelin; daughter Bonni Yelin Gibel; and husband Maruice, sons Scott Yelin, and wife, Sompong, of Thailand, Craig Yelin and wife Tamara of West Hartford and Robert Yelin of Stamford She is also servived by her beloved grandchildren Jesse, Ethan, Levi, Avidan and Alina.

Barbara was a native of Stamford, born on November 30, 1931, at Stamford Hospital. She was the daughter of Herbert and Lillian Epstein Sherman and sister to Stuart Sherman and his wife Johanna of Brooklyn N. Y.. Within the tight knit community she grew up with many friends whom she stayed in contact with until her last days. She married Arnold, one of those close friends, during an Army furlough, on August 23rd 1952, at Temple Beth El in Stamford.

Although extremely artistic and a creative writer she chose to attend nursing school and graduated from Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, in New York City in June of 1952. She went on to have a rewarding nursing career, working at hospitals in Red Bank, N. J. and at St. Joseph, and Stamford Hospitals in Stamford until the birth of her fourth child. When she retired from nursing she then went on to support her husband in the family business, Hay Photographers.

The family will be holding services at The Leo P.Gallagher & Son Funeral Home, December 26, 2111 beginning at 11:00am. Internment will follow at the Independent Lodge Cemetery in Darien, Ct. The family will sit Shiva at the family residence in Stamford, Ct. following internment. The family will also receive friends until Thursday December 29th, each day from 12 noon until 4pm, and from 6pm until 8pm. We ask that instead of flowers that you make a contribution in her name to a charity or organization of ones choice.

We would like to thank the doctors at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for taking the chance and giving us some much needed additional time with her. We would also like to give special thanks to her primary physician and close friend Dr. Nina Inamdar.

Arrangements handled by Leo P.Gallagher & Son Funeral Home; www.leopgallagherstamford.com