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Mostly Cloudy Inwood native Barbara A. Lunde dies at 89
She enjoyed a ‘wonderful life’
Inwood native Barbara A. (Baylis) Lunde of Port Orange, Fla., died on April 10. She was 89.
The youngest child of Daniel Morrell and Barbara (Tepe) Baylis, Lunde was born on June 21, 1921 in Inwood. She graduated Lawrence High School in 1939 and according to her family won tickets from the Herald to the World’s Fair that year.
Four years later married she married Steen Lunde at Russell Sage Church in Far Rockaway. Lunde raised four children and then worked in the cafeteria of her alma mater until 1974. She enjoyed several hobbies, including baking, making dolls and teddy bears, ceramics and painting, gardening, crossword puzzles and she was an avid reader.
In 1974, the Lundes retired to Pine Island, Fla. Seven years later they moved to Ponce Inlet and she became very involved in her community. For her outstanding civic service Lunde was named Citizen of the Year by her fellow residents in 1993. She was a charter member of the Garden Club, a member of the Ponce Inlet Woman’s Club, and was past Regent of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
After moving to Port Orange a year later, she volunteered at Hospice of Volusia/Flagler for 13 years, and was actively involved in Colony in the Wood, the community in which she resided, as well as TOPS (Take Off Pounds Seriously) and the Red Hat Society.
Lunde is survived by four children: Steen A. Lunde and his wife Cathy, Sidney A. Michaels and her husband Ronald S. Sciepko, Janice K. Lunde and Lisa K. Armstrong and her husband Chad. Five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, and her beloved cat Chip. She was predeceased by her husband, Steen; her sisters Doris Hoffman and Ruth Larsen and her brother, Elias Baylis.
A memorial service will be planned for later in the year. The family requests that donations be sent in Barbara Lunde’s memory to Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, 3800 Woodbriar Trail, Port Orange, FL 32129.
More than once Lunde said that she had “a wonderful life and was lucky to have many good friends,” he family said. She will be remembered by her family and friends as a go-getter who was always there to lend a hand.
