Barbara Stone Bedient, 95, died January 20, 2018. She graduated from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in 1945 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Bacteriology. After graduation she worked as a laboratory technician, first at Boston Children's Hospital, then at Parke-Davis in Detroit and then at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. It was there that she met Jack D. Bedient and they married in 1949. Barbara accepted a technician position in the Medical School at the University of Washington. After Jack completed his teaching certificate at the University of Washington he was hired to teach mathematics in Port Angeles, Washington. In 1959, the family moved again for Jack to attend graduate school at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Jack was hired by the mathematics department at ASU in 1963 and became Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics. Barbara and Jack helped establish the Tempe Center for the Handicapped which provided social activities for young adults with disabilities. Eventually Barbara earned her teaching certificate at ASU then taught 7th and 8th grade science from 1969 until her retirement in 1988. Barbara is survived by four children, four granddaughters and a brother. She was preceded in death by two siblings, a cousin and an aunt. The family will gather in Tempe later this year to celebrate her life.