OBITUARY | Barbara Hunt Robb Meehan

Barbara Hunt Robb Meehan, 86, of Longboat Key and Chicago, died July 9.

Born June 16, 1929 in Providence, R.I., Mrs. Meehan graduated from Classical High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Brown University in 1951. She married Richard Preston Robb, a fellow Brown graduate, in 1952.

With her husband, she published Trailer Topics Magazine, the leading periodical of its day on mobile homes, recreational vehicles and travel trailers. After the magazine was sold in 1972, she served as an agent for the IRS, applying her prodigious math skills and vivacious personality to outreach programs to taxpayers as a spokeswoman at meetings and on local television.

Throughout her life, she was involved in alumni activities with Brown University, including leadership roles with the Brown Club of Chicago and alumni interviews for prospective applicants. In 2001, she established the Richard P. Robb ’51 and Barbara H. Robb ’51 Scholarship Fund at Brown.

Mrs. Meehan had a lifelong love of the water and for decades divided her time between her primary home in Longboat Key and summer home in Chicago. She was an avid bridge player and a member of the Women’s Athletic Club in Chicago.

In 2006, she married Joseph Meehan, of Tampa.

Mrs. Meehan was predeceased by her husband, Richard Robb, in 1990 and her husband, Joseph Meehan, in 2012. She is survived by sons, Richard Hunt Robb, of Winnetka, Ill., and Curtis Preston Strauss Robb, of New York, N.Y.; one granddaughter; three grandsons; sister, Janet Hunt Crull, of South Bend, Ind.; a nephew; a niece; and four stepchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to Brown University.