Sharon Gallagher Tarbox

Sharon Gallagher Tarbox, 66, of Sanford, died Tuesday, October 4 at the Goodall Hospital in Sanford.She was born in Island Falls on February 10, 1939, a daughter of Erwin A. and Dorothy E. (Webb) Gallagher. She was a 1956 graduate of Skowhegan High School and a 1959 graduate of Brigham and Women's Hospital School of Nursing in Boston.After graduation, she returned to Brigham and Women's Hospital where she was employed as a Registered Nurse for about a year. She later worked at the Waterville Osteopathic Hospital and the Fairview Hospital in Skowhegan. At the time of her death, she was employed with the H. D. Goodall Hospital in Sanford.She met George A. Tarbox, II in junior high school in Skowhegan and after a long courtship, they married in Tiverton, RI on October 22, 1960. They moved to Norridgewock where they raised their family. They moved to Springvale in 1975 and then to Sanford in 1976. An avid reader, she loved spending time with her family and with her books.Her father died in 1999.Survivors include her husband of almost 45 years, George A. Tarbox, II of Sanford, a son, George A. (Adam) Tarbox, III of Sanford, a daughter, Melanie Jan Miller of Sanford, her mother Dorothy Gallagher of Wells, grandchildren Hope, Matthew and Kirsten, all of Sanford, 3 brothers, Terence of Wrentham, MA, Richard of Stone Mountain, GA, Brion of Auburn, and a sister Sandra Merrill of Gardiner.A committal service will be held at a later date in Skowhegan.Arrangements are through the Lafrance-Lambert & Black Funeral Home, 29 Winter Street, Sanford. To leave the family a message of condolence, click the button at left.