Barbara Jean (Elmore) Page, our mom, was born in Brownsville, Kentucky on July 24, 1935, to Almon and Vera Elmore and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana along with her four siblings.  She was affectionately nicknamed BEBOP.   Mom was the oldest of five children and learned to take on responsibility at a young age. Responsibility was high on her list of what she expected from her own children.

Mom met our dad, the love of her life – Clinton Page – after her own father introduced them. They wed in November 1954 and were married just shy of 40 years when dad passed away – not nearly long enough for mom.

After marrying, Mom and Dad moved to Alexandria, Virginia, where dad was stationed in the Army.   Mom worked at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. as a secretary during this time. They moved back to Indianapolis afterwards to start their family.

In 1970, mom and dad packed up their four children (one teenager and three pre-teens) and their belongings and moved to central Florida, settling in the small town of Clermont.  Mom was a stay-at-home mom while her children were still in school. After the last of her children were in high school, mom went to work at Walt Disney World for their Landscaping department as the office secretary.

In the mid 1980's, mom and dad moved to Auburndale, Florida to open and run their new welding business, WELD-CO, together with two of their children until dad's passing.  Mom kept running the business until 1998.

Mom moved back to Clermont in 1999 to be closer to her children and retire.  She was very active in her King's Ridge community participating in the Drama Club, Red Hat Ladies, and her Wellington neighborhood community.  She was well known in the King's Ridge community.

Her children and grandchildren looked forward every year to GG's big Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday traditions and family events – the cooking, kitchen banter, everyone's favorite dessert (usually cherry delight), and a gazillion presents (all coordinated in matching wrapping paper) which had to be opened individually, and in order, so she could watch in each child's delight from GG's chair – this was her happy place.

She loved being with her family – doting on her grandbabies, shopping trips with her daughters, granddaughters and great granddaughters, the fun road trips without maps, the gas station shopping sprees with her great grandchildren, the summer family get togethers at Perry's in Daytona, the cruises, the hours-long phone conversations with her children, grandchildren, and her siblings.

Mom was a woman who earned respect with the people in her circle from her strengths, commitment, and ability to love with wisdom and without condition.  When we think of her we think of family in the sense of a comforting place filled with love, laughter, understanding, memories, and home.  Family was everything to her.  When her children and grandchildren married, she brought their spouses into her fold and considered them her own.  She was so proud of our family which instills a strong and unspoken bond between us all.  She was the core and heartbeat of our family.

Mom was preceded in death by our dad Clinton Page, her parents Almon & Vera Elmore, her brother Russell "Rusty" Elmore and her nephew, Randall "Randy" Pflum who had a very special place in her heart.

She is survived by a big brood of a family – all because two people fell in love – 4 children called her Mom, 9  grandchildren called her Gran'ma, and 15 great grandchildren called her GG. Her four children are Michael (Cathy) Page, Kenneth (Susan) Page, Carrie (Robert) Garlinger, and Nancy (John) Giddens.  Her nine grandchildren are Tristan, Jason & Mandy; Riley & Kyla; Chad & Brianna, Alyssa & Jacob along with their spouses and partners.   Her 15 great grandchildren are Lily, Parker, Kristopher, Kayden, Bailey, Aubrey, Michael, Jonathan, Leighton, Matthew, Katharine, Payton, Beckett, Nicholas, and Gunnar.

Mom is also survived by her loving sisters Patricia (Jim) Pflum, Joan Gootee, her brother Jerry (Donna) Elmore, her sister-in-law Marianne Page and a slew of nieces and nephews who absolutely adored her.

Services will be private.