SHELBURNE Eileen Sis Barker, 88, died peacefully on July 19, 2011 at Wake Robin, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on April 17, 1923 in Garden City, NY, the second of three daughters of Cyrus Porter Smith and Eileen OBrien Smith. She attended the Ethel Walker School and was married for 62 years to Stephen Barker, from September 19, 1942 until his death on April 2, 2005. She is survived by her son David Read Barker, of Annapolis, Maryland, her daughter Jennifer Barker, of East Middlebury, and her son James Morrison Barker, of Charlotte, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Sis had the great fortune to be able to devote much of her life to volunteer community service. At the start of WW II, she took the Red Cross Nurses Aide course and volunteered in seven different hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia over a 24-year period. She was also a founder of the Summit, NJ First Aid Squad. She had a special gift for organizing responses to distant peoples needs: clothing for Navaho Indians in 1947; food and clothing for Hungarian refugees in 1956; and books for Burmese schoolchildren in the mid-1960s. A resident of Cornwall and Middlebury from 1971 to 2006, she served as President of the Board of Directors of Addison County Home Health and Hospice, where she initiated the first training program in Vermont for home health care nurses, in 1972. She was President of the Board of Directors of Hope, formerly known as the Addison County Community Action Group; President of the Board of Directors of the Porter Medical Center Auxiliary and an active Round Robin volunteer; President of the Board of Directors of Elderly Services; and a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Addison County. At Wake Robin, she enjoyed welcoming newcomers to the community and arranging flowers for patients in the skilled nursing unit. A circle of remembrance will be held at Wake Robin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 30. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Elderly Services, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury. Arrangements are under the direction of Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral home, 117 S. Main St., Middlebury. www.sandersonfuneralservice.com.