Barbara Bigelow Dunn died peacefully at her home in Lincoln, MA on August 12, 2017 with her family by her side. She was born in Boston to Henry F. Bigelow and Barbara W. Bigelow. She attended Miss Chickering's one-room school where classes were held on the unheated porch, then Bancroft school and Milton Academy. She was always proud of her Bigelow heritage. Ancestors had founded the Bigelow Carpet Company in Clinton, but also contributed to the town, creating the Bigelow Free Library. She adored her grandfather, Henry Forbes Bigelow, an architect who designed the Weston Town Hall, buildings at St. Marks School, and a renovation of the Boston Athenaeum. She spent countless hours with her grandfather learning the Latin names of plants and wildflowers, information she carried with her always. One summer she spent an afternoon instructing Jacqueline Onassis on the names of flowers growing on her property on Martha's Vineyard. Throughout her life, she cared about flowers and landscape. From an early age, she was interest in art, winning a prize for a pastel at the Bancroft school. She took classes at the Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, CT for many years, and was especially intrigued by color theory. She spent many summers on Martha's Vineyard, having shows of her works in galleries in Menemsha and Vineyard Haven. She also demonstrated her love of photography at the Vineyard with a show at the bank in Chilmark. Given her love of shape and design, she collected antiques: not the traditional furniture or accessories, but odd molds or unusual tools, Shaker boxes, or antique postcards. Every summer she would set up a booth at the flea market in Chilmark and sell these items to the tourists. She also sold her antiques in Tenants Harbor, Maine when she began spending summers there. Eventually, she incorporated the oddities into her artwork, using chicken wishbones, porcupine quills, butterflies, and feathers. She had a show at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln called "Assemblages" with a variety of her framed quirky artworks. She also loved poetry and was the Poetry Editor for the Farrar Ponder, a local newsletter. Barbara married James H. Mills in 1941. They had three children, James Peter, and Susan. Peter died of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy when he was ten years old. The family lived in New Canaan, CT for many years. After being divorced, Barbara married the late Thomas W. Dunn in 1965, and they to moved to Weston, MA, then to Lincoln, MA. She is survived by her son, James Mills Jr. and his wife Elaine and her daughter, Susan Mills. She is also survived by her stepchildren, Kathleen Lyman and her husband Richard, Jonathan Dunn and his wife Holly, and Eleanor Starr. She was the beloved grandmother of Janine Mills, Sherry Mills, Michelle Mills, Lynne Mills, the late Julianne Mills, Amelia Munger, Hannah Munger, Jonathan Graves, R.J. Lyman, Elizabeth Dunn, and Ashley Velsvaag. In addition, there are ten great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her brother, Forbes Bigelow, and her sister, Joan Kennedy. All are welcome to attend her memorial service on Friday, November 3rd at 2 pm in First Parish, 14 Bedford Road, Lincoln. Interment will be private at Lincoln Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Care Dimensions Hospice, 75 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA 01923. Arrangements are under the care of the Dee Funeral Home of Concord.