Barbara E. Saving

June 18, 1922 - March 26, 2018

Barbara Everett Saving was born June 18, 1922 in Dearborn, Michigan to Guy and Ethel Everett. She had one brother, Robert, who died in 1943. Barb grew up in the Chicago area. She attended Lawrence University in Appleton Wisconsin prior to WWII. After the war she attended and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She married John (Jack) Edwin Saving on April 8, 1944. He preceded her in death in 1989. They had two children: Peter (wife Linda) of Iron River, Michigan and Pamela of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. She has two grandchildren: Allegra Saving Lerner MD (husband Benjamin) of Louisville KY, and Lt. Cmdr. Griffin Everett Saving (wife Katie) of Rockville MD. She also has three great grandchildren; Lillian Lee Saving, Everleigh Rose Saving, and Neil Everett Lerner. She died peacefully in her sleep at Lake Shore Assisted Living in Minocqua Wisconsin on March 26, 2018. After raising their family in Brookfield Wisconsin, she and Jack retired to Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin in 1984. Barb later moved to Minocqua, Wisconsin. Barb was an avid member of The Church of the Pines Methodist Church in Minocqua, as well as several other local civic organizations. Barb’s greatest joys were her family, music, art, fashion, a good laugh, and living a life of service to her church and community. A service of remembrance will he conducted at the church at a later date, with internment at Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield this summer when family members can gather to celebrate her life.