MINNEAPOLIS – Barbara Ann Mudgett Earing, 52, of West 43rd St., formerly of Sherburne, NY, passed away Friday, June 30, 2006 in Minneapolis.
Born Sept. 18, 1953 in Albany, she was a daughter of James F. and Eleanore J. Morawski Earing. She was a graduate of Sherburne-Earlville High School in 1973, attended the Nursing School at St. Joseph’s College in Elmira, and received her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Tulsa. She was a certified nephrology nurse at the Fairview University Hospital in the dialysis unit, and had also worked at United Health Care in Minneapolis.
Barbara lived with health challenges all of her life, primarily diabetes and its complications. She spoke freely about her illness that dated back to her childhood, to educate people about the difficulties it can cause. She was very active in a U.S.-Russian cultural exchange program, the Ural Diabetes Association, that focused on juvenile diabetes. She worked with the Minnesota Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to start a pen-pal program between Minnesota and Russian children. On June 1, 2006 she fulfilled her dream of traveling to Russia, visiting Yekaterinburg, Siberia, to assess diabetes treatment and education for kids and to get basic supplies to diabetic children.
Surviving are her father, James F. Earing of Sherburne; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Sally A. and Paul Bucalo of Norwich; Carol A. Prentice of Sherburne; two brothers and a sister-in-law, James F. Earing, Jr. of Salida, Colo.; Philip J. and Penny Earing of Villa Grove, Colo.; a nephew, Nicholas; three nieces, Christie, Stephanie and Rebecca; a  grand nephew, Asher; several aunts, uncles and cousins. She was predeceased by her mother, Eleanore Nixon in 1998 and a brother, David P. Earing in 1981.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, from the Burgess & Tedesco Funeral Home, 10 S. Main St., Sherburne.
Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne.
Friends are invited to call at the funeral home from Noon until 1 p.m. Saturday prior to the service.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations be made to the American Cancer Society, or to the American Diabetes Assoc. chapter of one’s choice.