Bloomington, Indiana
Barbara Ellen Florini
1940 — 2023
Barbara (Buxton Hughes) Florini died on September 25, 2023, after a long battle with Alzheimer's dementia. Barb was born to Nancy Buxton on May 31, 1940 in Ironton, Missouri. For the first eight years of her life she lived with her aunt and uncle, Sol and Esther Owen, who loved her as their own daughter. Barb was intelligent and determined. The first girl in Pawnee High School to refuse membership in the Future Homemakers of America, opting instead to study Latin, her academic excellence earned her a scholarship that allowed her to be the first in her family to attend college. She completed an associate and a bachelor's degree in the early 1960s, becoming a medical technologist...