Family of Sherwin Bernard RUBIN and Barbara Ray GOODSTEIN

Barbara Rubin passed away Monday morning, Dec. 16th after a spirited

battle with cancer. She was 81.

Burial will take place in Knoxville, TN prior to a memorial Service

that will be held at 5:00 PM Thursday Dec. 19th at Congregation

Ahavath Sholom, 4050 South Hulen, Fort Worth, 76109

Born on July 23rd 1932 in Knoxville, TN to Miriam and Jay Goodstein,

Barbara graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of

Science in Business Administration. She married Sherwin Rubin after

the two met as camp counselors at Blue Star Summer Camp in North

Carolina. They eventually settled in Fort Worth in 1956 where they

raised 3 children.

After a long career managing non-profit organizations (The Ft. Worth

Girls Club and The Dan Danciger Jewish Community Center, among others)

Barbara eventually completed her M.B.A. at TCU. She went on to work

for two decades at NESDA, as the Director of the International Society

of Certified Electronic Technicians.

After "retiring" Barbaraʼs long-term passion for service and social

justice continued and she remained active throughout her community.

She held a number of board and advisory positions in the Jewish

community, was active in voter registration programs for new citizens

(through the League of Women Voters), organized election workers as an

election precinct chair and judge, and volunteered regularly at Bass

Performance Hall and weekly for thirteen years as an Airport

Ambassador at DFW.

While still "retired" she served as the Interim Director of the Jewish

Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant Country before finding her new,

and last, endeavor as the Founding Director of the Sylvia Wolenʼs

Daytimers, a program of Beth-El Congregation with support from the

Jewish Federation. This position allowed her to fulfill her life-long

passion for entertaining, event planning, education and community

building.

She was an avid outdoorswoman: canoeing, skiing (water and snow),

hiking, scuba diving, and camping throughout her life and an

enthusiastic world traveler.