Barbara Hollar Gallant

Barbara Hollar Gallant

Gallant, Barbara Hollar (1936-2015)

Photograph of Barbara Hollar as a young woman. Barbara was the daughter of Russell and Virginia Hollar. She grew up in Shenandoah County, and later majored in History at Radford College, graduating in 1958.

She met her future husband while they were both working for Deco Electronics in Cambridge, MA. They moved to Belmont, Massachusetts, where Barbara stayed for most of her adult life. She and her husband had a son, Stuart, and a daughter, Ellen.

Following retirement, she and Bob traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. Barbara struggled with Parkinson's Disease in the years before her death but enjoyed the support of her community and church in Belmont throughout her last years.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Ca 1954

Identified by Mary Jo Sweeney. Verified by Emma Luther and Ellen Dellinger, both cousins of the subject. They recalled that Barbara and Ellen were "raised together".

Additional information was found in her obituary, found at this URL: https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries.

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Same subject as in 02786, 02787, 02788, and 07223.

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Glass Negative