Barbara L.F.D. Warren

Barbara Louise Frank Dockham Warren, 84, of Whitefield, NH (formerly of Haverhill, NH) passed away peacefully on January 13, 2026, at the Morrison Nursing Home in Whitefield, NH after nearly 4 years of declining health following a stroke and advancing dementia.

Barbara was born in 1941 in Elizabeth, NJ. She spent her childhood in Colonia, New Jersey, graduating from Woodbridge High School in 1959. She attended Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia, graduating in 1963. She continued her studies at Antioch University New England, earning a Master’s degree in 1993.

Barbara’s vocation and avocation was teaching. She was trained in early childhood education and for many years especially loved teaching kindergarten. Later in her career she trained in Reading Recovery – a program developed for first graders having difficulty learning to read. Barbara was not only very effective she loved the process and working one on one with kids. She was always drawn to the most needy children.

After many years of teaching in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont, she and her second husband, Roger, embarked on an adventure that took them to the Island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands (under U.S. jurisdiction north of Guam) to take teaching positions there in 1996.

During her 3 years on Saipan, she was discovered by the US Military Schools on Guam – because they had adopted the Reading Recovery Program for which Barbara was trained. After 3 years on Guam, she transferred to the Azores (Lajes Air Base) and then to a base in Darmstadt, Germany for 4 years. These international teaching adventures grew Barbara and Rogers’ appetites for travel, and the places and people they encountered is far too long to list. Suffice it to say that of the list of “100 Places You Must Visit,” they visited 25.

In 2008, Barbara retired from the Department of Defense (DOD Schools) and returned to the home she and Roger shared in Haverhill, NH. They immediately got involved in Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall in Haverhill and with the Horse Meadow Senior Center. For a time, Barbara was Chair of the Board for Court Street Arts. In 2021 she suffered a stroke, and due to her declining health in 2023, she and Roger moved to the Summit by Morrison in Whitefield, NH – a 3-tier retirement community.

Barbara is pre-deceased by [her parents] and by her son Glenn Dockham. She is survived by her husband Roger of Whitefield, NH; her son Randy Dockham and wife Marilyn of Bethlehem, NH; her son Mark Dockham and wife Jeana of Sedona, AZ; daughter-in-law Lisa Dockham of Milton, VT; stepson Seth Warren-Crow and wife Heather of Lubbock, TX; stepdaughter Holly Parker and husband Geoffrey Ezekiel (Zeke) Hansen, of West Hartford, CT; grandson Andrew Dockham and wife Olivia of Haverhill, NH; grandson Timothy Dockham, of Orlando, FL and granddaughter Marcelline Dockham of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; great grandchildren Aaron and Emily Dockham of Haverhill, NH; step-grandson Jesper Warren-Crow – and also her brothers Don Frank of Leonardo, New Jersey and Jim Frank of Ocala, FL.

A celebration of life will be held at Alumni Hall in Haverhill Corner, NH on May 2 at 11:00 A.M.