Barbara Ann Graig

Barbara was born and raised in Canada, a small town in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A talented musician, she moved to New York in her teens to study voice and piano, living with other music and dance students at the well-known Three Arts Club on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

While living in New York, she met and married Walter Graig, who was then a student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where they lived for several years.

Upon their return to the U.S., they moved to Cooperstown, New York, where Walter was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church. For the next three decades, they lived all over New York state as Walter became the pastor of churches in Orchard Park, Albany, Chappaqua, and Elmont (Queens).

Barbara sang in choirs and as a soloist during those years, also continuing to play the piano and learning how to play the pipe organ. She was also an avid reader who loved to garden and work crossword puzzles.

When Walter retired, they moved to Corea, a small lobstering village on the coast of Maine. After Walter passed away in 1991, Barbara continued to spend summers in Maine while spending winters in Falls Church, Virginia. In Falls Church, she sang in the choir and was an active member of Falls Church Presbyterian Church, also participating in the Meals on Wheels Program.

Barbara later moved to Staunton, Virginia, where she tended to her garden and played her beloved Bach on the piano, before moving eight years ago to the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield. She passed away at Fairfax Hospital.

Barbara is survived by her son Ian and his wife Laurie, of Falls Church, and by her grandchildren Brandon and Emma.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.murphy-fh.com for the Graig family.