Isabelle Quimby

On January 3, 1922 chiropractor, George Barber, was removed from the bedroom where his wife had been in labor for many hours, at the request of their family doctor. The doctor told George that he had to make a Rochester NH- Isabelle Quimby choice on who he wanted to save- the wife, Margaret, or the unborn baby. Moments later, with both men present, Margaret delivered Isabelle. She would be Margaret's only child and both mother and infant, would go on to live long, active and mostly happy lives punctuated by periods of great sorrow and disappointment. The Lord came down for Isabelle Barber Quimby on May 5, 2013 . From an almost perilous start, Isabelle went on to grow up during the Depression ,raising and selling rabbits as a child and holding part-time jobs during high school ( where she played on the Rochester High basketball team and was a cheerleader) and later ,after graduation, she held a full time job as a sales clerk and a weekend job making candy at the outbreak of WWII. In 1941 she married the...