Healing Transitions 20th Anniversary Publication
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Fred Barber (1938-2014)<br />
THE LEADER<br />
You can almost hear the smile<br />
spreading on Evelyn Barber’s<br />
face when we start talking about<br />
her late husband, Fred, and one<br />
of the biggest joys of his life – his<br />
work at <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Transitions</strong>.<br />
“<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Transitions</strong> became<br />
the greatest passion of Fred’s<br />
life,” she said. “And I felt the<br />
same way. We lost our older<br />
son, Mark, to alcoholism, and<br />
Fred was a recovering alcoholic.<br />
We couldn’t save our son, but<br />
we both felt that our work with<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Transitions</strong> was a tribute<br />
to him. And if we could help<br />
other parents help their children<br />
save themselves…well it became<br />
very personal to us.”<br />
Fred Barber, along with former<br />
Wake County Human Services<br />
director, Maria Spaulding, and<br />
Barbara Goodmon, former Board<br />
Member at Wake County Human<br />
Services, became known in the<br />
community as the “Dynamic<br />
Trio.” Many who spoke to us for<br />
this series acknowledged that<br />
opening the doors at <strong>Healing</strong><br />
Darryl with Evelyn<br />
13 CELEBRATING YEARS OF RECOVERY HEALING-TRANSITIONS.ORG
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