- Date Of Birth: August 9, 1934
- Date Of Death: January 11, 2020
- State: Ohio
Barbara J. Clinefelter of Akron, Ohio passed away at home on January 11, 2020 due to heart and kidney failure. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wayne M. and Martina I. Baugh (nee Fratz); her former husband, James W. Clinefelter; Baby Girl Clinefelter; and daughter, Laura M. Burelli (Greg, deceased).
She skipped part of second and ninth grades, then graduated from East High School at 15 ½ and started at The University of Akron immediately. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with a double minor in English and French. She was always proud of the fact that while she was the youngest student in her Constitutional Law class, and wasn’t a law student, she consistently got higher grades than the law students did. Her husband said that while she had her bachelor’s degree and he had his master’s degree in political science, she was the smarter of the two of them, because she could balance their checkbook and the only way he could balance it was on his head.
After marrying the love of her life in 1957, she became the mother of four and was president of the PTA at King, Litchfield and Firestone, as well as a Cub Scout Den Mother and Brownie and Girl Scout Troop Leader. She spent many years as a board member of the Children’s Concert Society, and ushered at E. J. Thomas Hall for their events and was a Room Mother when her children attended King School.
She enjoyed traveling, reading (the bigger the book the better, especially if it had footnotes since she said “that’s where the good stuff is”), the arts, fine restaurants (always maintaining Swenson’s as a favorite), Turner Classic Movies and politics, both local and national.
