Barbara Ann Webster

Barbara was born into this world as twin (Robert). As they entered the foster care system, she was a fighter for everything she wanted and did it her way. Barbara self-funded her way through Harlem Nursing School, Class of 1969. Her personality was jovial, without limits and never seemed to allow anyone deter her from living her best life.

Giving a chance to see the world, Barbara took a leap and faithfully served her country in the United States Air Force. She loved nursing and was an Officer in the Air Force before meeting the father of her children. Her dreams were to be a flight nurse, but choose the domestic route that better suited her family’s needs. She worked as a Registered Nurse at Legacy’s Emmanuel Hospital and Mount Hood Medical Center for over 20+ years. As her marriage and Oregon career came to end in her perfect house in Vancouver, WA, Barbara opened a new chapter of her life story.

As a social butterfly, her smile and laughter lighted the room with joyous energy, and she began her next chapter living out her traveling aspirations through nursing, and reuniting and helping family and friends back on the east coast. Barbara loved her family, friends and community and gave back anyway she could.

She was a woman of many talents including being self-taught in sewing her own clothing using Ankara fabric, a multiple league campion soccer coach for her son Nathan's soccer team, while adventurously playing indoor soccer to improve her ability, but was a fierce competitor in local Portland bowling leagues. However, her passion for serving her church as the duty nurse for the local to national Church of God in Christ denomination conferences made her smile and filled with joy.

She was also avid scrabble genius and competitor, and loved putting puzzles together; above all else she loved her family and spending quality time with them.

When her traveling nursing career came to end as she followed Tamara (her daughter) around the country, she spent her last life’s chapter hanging out with her children and grandkids in Washington state. She ensured to pass on her witty sarcasm, can-do attitude, sassy humor, and infectious smile and laugh.

She leaves behind cherished memories to her children, Tamara (Carlos) Crucey and Nathan (Grace) Webster; her grandchildren: Edward, Carlos, Caden, Cheyenne, Matthew, Josiah, Elijah, Jasmine, Jayden, Janaya, Jaliyah, and Liam; great-grandchildren: Lillian, Emma and Dakota; siblings: David Brownbill, Anita Hunt Armstead, Joyce (Neal) Simpson, and Evon Addams; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her siblings, Robert McNeil (her twin ) and Ken Morrison.