Last Friday CarolAnn Barker filled her trunk with food coolers, the product of many hours of cooking, and drove to Carey, Ohio, to the farm where she grew up and where her 95-year-old father still lives.
The ritual was a familiar one; she had already planned menus for the family’s Fourth of July gathering at the farm, which usually required several days’ worth of cooking and two carloads.
But she’ll never cook all the meals she planned, or go through the ritual ever again.
CarolAnn Barker died on Sunday night from the giant cell arthritis disease that plagued her for at least eight years. She was 68.
“She fought through so much,” her husband Jack Barker said.
[Read the whole story here at the Hillsdale Daily News.]
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