Arthur A Barbour Jr., M. D., 86, of Trevett died Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 from complications related to congestive heart failure. 

He was born on Feb. 23, 1926 in Medford, Mass. to Arthur A Barbour Sr. and Marion Beaty Barbour, the second of three children. His early childhood was spent in Reading, Mass. and the family then moved to Arlington, Va. where his father spent his working life with the U.S. Government printing office. 

He joined the U.S. Navy toward the end of World War II as a naval air cadet but was lucky enough to miss action in the South Pacific as the war ended prior to his deployment. After receiving his honorable discharge in 1946, he met his first wife, Gloria Yaberg, and they dated until he began college on the east coast. 

He attended Duke University, Wilson Teachers College, and then graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor of science degree in zoology. Gloria and Art reconnected when he came back to California to attend USC and they were married in August 1949. Art then worked as a chemist at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. He was later accepted to the medical school at The College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons and graduated as a doctor of osteopathy, performing his residency in Long Beach, Calif. at the Long Beach Osteopathic Hospital. He began practicing family medicine in Norwalk, Calif. They settled in Downey, Calif. and raised two children, Todd Barbour, 54 of San Diego, Calif. and Tani Barbour, 51 of Vista, Calif. Gloria died in May 1978. He then met and married his loving second wife, Barbara (Bobbie), with whom he moved to the Boothbay region upon his retirement in 1988, where they lived in bliss until she died due to cancer in late January 2006. 

Art was an avid sportsman, enjoying bird and deer hunting, salt and fresh water fishing, fly fishing and also enjoyed tying fishing flies. He also was a sailor who participated several times in the San Pedro to Ensenada sailing race and also crewed several times on the Friendship Sloop, Dirigo, during the 1960s when the Friendship Sloop regatta was still held in Friendship. When he retired and moved to Trevett, he began power boating and purchased and restored a 1940's Chris Craft runabout and also purchased and restored a Chebeague Island Lobster boat and was a member of the Wawenok Sail and Power Squadron. He loved classic Corvettes and was a member of the Corvettes of Coastal Maine from 1990-2001. He also enjoyed photography, working with wood and building wooden boat models from scratch.

He was predeceased by both of his wives and one of his siblings, his older sister Beverly Mumford of Grants Pass, Ore. 

He is survived by his younger brother, Charles Alvan “Al” Barbour and his wife Sandy of Friendship; their children, Mark Barbour and Lauren Watts; his sister’s two sons, Wade Hudson of Bend, Ore. and Jay Hudson of Easley, S.C.; his natural children, Todd and Tani, and Bobbie’s four natural children and grandchildren whom he loved as if they were his own, Tracy Coy of Dresden, children: Sarah, Joseph, Dana, and Michelle and her son, Cameron; Patti Humpres-Diaz of Deerfield, N.H. and her husband Frank, children: Alexa, Madison, and Jack; Jeff Humpres of Lake Elsinore, Calif.; and Kori Humpres-Harper of Perris, Calif.

The immediate family would like to thank Art’s very great and precious friend, Lynn Schafer, for her tremendous support during the critical time of Art’s passing and for helping to guide them through the final night.

In accordance with his wishes, there will be no services. In lieu of flowers, please consider honoring Art’s memory with a donation to any of the following: Miles Hospice, Kno-Wa-Lin Hospice, the American Heart Association of Maine, or the American Cancer Society of Maine.