Barbara Kinney (Kahora) Marion

Barbara Kinney Kahora Marion died peacefully on Sunday, October 23, 2022. Barbara was born in Bridgewater, NJ and resided in New Jersey until 2021 when she moved to West Palm Beach Florida to be near family and friends. She loved the life she created at Lourdes McKeen and all of her new friends there.

Barbara attended Somerville High School and then pursued her lifelong dream to become a nurse. Graduating from Orange Memorial Nursing School in 1964, she joined several of her sisters and brother with a career in medicine. She worked as an operating room nurse for 35 years and then as a volunteer hospice nurse. Above all, Barbara was known for her ability to connect with people. She was the kindest person in any room and her melodic soothing voice was characteristic of her personality. Barbara loved to share laughter and joy, always with a twinkle in her dancing blue eyes and her magnetic charm at the forefront.

An avid traveller, Barbara had managed to visit many many exotic places, including five of the seven continents. Among her favorites were Paris, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Italy. Since her husband was a former surgeon, the two made jewelry making into a hobby and would visit faraway places looking for unique gems.

Barbara loved spending the summers in Nantucket, MA with her family and created a lifetime of memories there with her beloved grandchildren, George, Teddy, Campbell and Barbara (Lolly) and blond dachshunds Sugar and Honey that never left her side.

She is predeceased by her husband Dr. Russell Marion and parents Elizabeth and Thomas Quincy Kinney. She is survived by a daughter, Beth Kahora Taylor and son-in-law, George “Beau” Taylor; grandchildren, George, Theodore “Teddy”, William “Campbell” and Barbara “Lolly”, sisters Kathy, Joyce, Rose, Nancy and brother Richard “Duke”, beloved nieces and nephews and two lifelong friends, Betsy and Maryann. She will be missed immeasurably.

Services will be Quattlebaum Funeral Home, 6411 Parker Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 5pm-7pm on Tuesday, November 1st; and on Wednesday, November 2nd at the Royal Poinciana Chapel, 60 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach, FL at 9am.