Barbara Ruth Sampson

daughters home on October 3, 2018. She was the second daughter born to William Ezra and Mary

Edna Tutt in Hayden Colorado. Her early home was at the Willow Creek Store, where her father was

the proprietor, and then later they lived up the road at the Willow Creek homestead ranch on County

Road 29. She and her sister rode horseback 4 miles to the country school on the Williams Fork except

for 2 years, due to poor health they enjoyed a private teacher there at the ranch. Education was

important to the Tutts so when Sarah Jean was to start High School, Edna and the girls moved to town

leaving her Father to run the family ranch. The girls were active in the community and after graduating

high school, Barbara attended college at Colorado University for 2 years.

Barbara worked as a soda jerk and Luther Leroy Sampson found her to be very attractive and so it was

that they were married on August 27, 1950 at the Hayden Congregational Church where 50 years later

they would celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Lucky and Bobbie moved to Craig in November

1954 making it their permanent home

Bobbie began attending the First Christian Church where she became an avid believer in her Lord Jesus

Christ. Over the years she managed a home feeding, clothing, and teaching seven children born to

them along with loving and welcoming many neighbor kids and Sunday School children. She worked

a couple of years as a teacher's aide at Sunset Elementary School, taught Sunday School for many

years, and was a member of the Ladies Mites Society at church. Bobbie and Lucky were hospitable

and every minister and visiting missionary found their feet under their kitchen table. They shared their

home with youth ministers and anyone who was in need of a place to live, some over night, some for

months or years.

Sunday dinners were usually attended by family or friends and all enjoyed the stories and

conversations.

Having a large family made Bobbie a master gardener, manager, laundress, seamstress, child

psychologist, general, and cook. Her children all were expected to do their part and to do it well or

they would enjoy repeating the work. She used all circumstances to teach them the skills that would

serve them well their whole lives. When in nature, they were taught survival skills and appreciation of

all nature. Barbara found beauty and wonder in large vistas and in tiny details and taught others around

her to do the same.

Bobbie and Lucky began to take steps to preserve the family ranch. She became an avid land manager

and was educated in weed control and would become known as the Weed Woman. She wanted it to be

a tribute to her father while being a period piece that all could enjoy. Many family and friends have

been able to relax,work, and recharge there due to Bobbie and Lucky's hard work.

Later in life, her mother Mary Edna fell victim to Alzheimers. Bobbie moved her to a trailer next to the

family home so that she could assist her mother with her day to day life. Bobbie always taught as she

learned new skills so in doing this, she was actively teaching her children what they would need to

know when it became her turn to have Alzheimers. She cared for her mother with love and did all she

could to preserve her dignity until her eventual death. Barbara was a loving, listening, supportive

friend and champion to her family and friends and her presence will be deeply felt by those she

touched.

Barbara is preceded in death by her parents, her sisters Mary Beth and Sarah Jean Koch, one greatgranddaughter

and her loving husband of 58 years,Lucky. She is survived by her children

Trudy(Leon)Christopher, Nita (Jim) Abney, Frank (Lois) Sampson, Clyde (Lisa) Sampson, Joan (John)

Hillewaert, Janice (Lanny) Lambrecht, and Wanda (Kevin) Brown, 18 grandchildren, 33 greatgrandchildren,

her brother-in-law William Koch, 6 nephews and nieces....and on and on... a Legacy!