Barbara Louise Schaible

Barbara L. Schaible

Cape Cod, MA - Barbara L. Schaible (nee Barbara Louise Roemmele) died on August 22, 2025 following a long illness. She leaves her husband Peter of 47 years. Barbara lived in Brewster, MA on Cape Cod after moving there from Mendham, New Jersey in 2000. She was born in Newark, NJ on December 7, 1948 and lived in Irvington, NJ, where she was graduated from Irvington High School in 1966. In the late 1960s, she moved to Morristown, NJ. She received an A.A. degree from Thomas A. Edison State College in Trenton.

Barbara spent most of her career as an Information Technology (IT) professional, employed by Exxon, Xerox and AT&T in New Jersey. She held positions in programming, systems analysis and design, administration, sales and project management. Before leaving NJ, she was a Director of Corporate Systems at AT&T Capital. For a short time she owned and operated The Art Stop Gallery in Gladstone, NJ and managed The Health Shoppe in Chester, NJ.

On Cape Cod, Barbara was employed by Lucent Technologies in Hyannis as a Program Manager before moving into banking, first in Chatham, MA at Fleet Bank (acquired by Bank of America) and later in Provincetown, MA at Seamen's Bank, from which she retired in 2015 as a consumer loan officer. She also worked at The Spectrum Gallery in Brewster and for the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis as the circulation manager for Cape Cod VIEW magazine.

Barbara dabbled with watercolor and oil painting, was an avid reader, a Mah Jongg player and opera aficionado. Her volunteer work included being on the Brewster Ladies' Library Board of Directors and as an assistant English instructor for the Cape Cod Literacy Council.

Services are private. A memorial will be held at a later date.



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