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Barbara Susan Wardrop passed away March 3, 2024, after a three-year battle with lung cancer. She was born in Redondo Beach, Calif., to George Clyde Wardrop and Daisy Bell Wilkins on April 3, 1959. Her early years were marked with numerous family relocations, as her father worked in aeronautics as a welder. His career ultimately brought the family to Hood River, Ore. She attended May Street Elementary school. Her beloved father George died when she was a young teenager, which left a lifelong painful void her heart.
Due to subsequent hardships and experiences in life, including a few years of living unhoused, her life was marked by great compassion for those that she encountered on the streets, as she understood their suffering. It was not uncommon for her to give away food, take people in temporarily in bad weather, or give away what little money she had to someone else in need. She was also a home caregiver for her stepdaughter, Shyla, who was medically fragile as a child.
In 2004, Barbara experienced a life-changing spiritual encounter with Jesus and became “His little lamb” — as she frequently called herself. From that time on she began to heal and grow steadily in heart and spirit. She came to know inside and out that she was deeply loved by God. With family and friends at her side, she steadfastly faced her final marathon — a cancer diagnosis. It was during that time she truly came to believe and know that she was lovable and beloved by others. Though her body ultimately was overcome by the disease, she was an overcomer of more trauma and suffering than any one soul should have to face in a lifetime. Despite the challenges of cancer treatment, her profound love for “my Papa God and Jesus” was unwavering.
Barbara experienced a peaceful death, leaving to join the company of her family and friends and precious pet companions that had gone before her. She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Daisy, and much-beloved siblings, Eva and John, and dear friend Leroy Daley. She leaves behind her dearly-loved daughters Chvonne Wardrop-Long (Jonathan) and Tisa Angen (Ryan), stepdaughter Shyla Smith, her sister Nancy Turner, and beloved grandchildren Tallulah Wardrop-Christopherson and Juniper Wardrop-Long.
Barbara was especially attached to and grateful for the long-standing loving care and steadfast support she received over the years from Dr. Molly Fauth of One Community Health, her church family from the Vancouver Vinyard Fellowship, and the ministrations of Matt her chaplain and the nurses of Village Healthcare Hospice. We as family and friends are forever grateful.
A memorial service commemorating Barbara’s life will be held at Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Hood River, Saturday, April 13 at 11 a.m. with lunch to follow.
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