From Worcester Telegram & Gazette: February 25. 2004 12:00AM

Nancy (Mowry) Ober, 83
SHREWSBURY- Nancy (Mowry) Ober, 83, of 24 Edgewood Rd., died Monday, February 23, in UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus.

She leaves her husband of 59 years, Harry E. Ober. Three sons, Duncan E. Ober of Spencer, Stuart W. Ober of Eliot, ME and Randall W. Ober of Pittsburgh, PA; a brother, Wesley W. Mowry of Hartland, VT; five grandchildren; six great grandchildren; three nieces. She was born in Worcester, daughter of Wesley S. and Alice (Atwood) Mowry and lived in Shrewbury over 50 years. She graduated from Tufts College.

Mrs. Ober was a librarian at Shrewsbury High School for many years retiring in 1980.

She was an avid birder and member of Forbush Bird Club of Worcester County. She was a member of First Congregational Church.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, February 27, in First Congregational Church, 19 Church Rd. There are no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Avis Kemp Scholarship Fund, c/o First Congregational Church, 19 Church Rd., Shrewsbury, MA 01545. Howard C. Allen Funeral Home, 653 Main St., is directing arrangements.

If anyone would like to contribute their sentiments/personal recollections of Nancy, please send them via e-mail to Joan Zumpfe at jbzumpfe@dellmail.com, and they will be passed along to Harry after the Memorial Service on Friday.

On Friday, February 27, 2004, among many friends and relatives, were 18 members of the local birding community attending a Memorial Service to celebrate the life of Nancy (Atwood Mowry) Ober of 24 Edgewood Road of Shrewsbury, MA. Nancy had passed away on Monday, February 23rd.

Many Brookline Bird Club members may remember Nancy who often attended meetings with her husband Harry, Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Nancy raised 3 sons, worked as a school librarian, did volunteer work at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine,and traveled on birdwatching expeditions. In spite of her busy schedule, she found time to be an active participant in the pursuit of knowledge about birds especially in the Worcester County regions.

Nancy was acknowledged as a contributor to the recently published MASSACHUSETTS BREEDING BIRD ATLAS.

Nancy was a faithful and active member of The Forbush Bird Club from the time she joined in 1956. Nancy was elected Club Secretary in 1963, Club President in 1973 and was named a Forbush Fellow in 1988. Nancy worked on the Checklist Committee, THE CHICKADEE (the annual publication of Worcester County Bird Sightings and the activities of the Forbush Bird Club) Editorial Committee and the Nominating Committee. For many years, Nancy led bird club trips, in May, in her town as well as to Mount Auburn Cemetery. She participated in annual National Audubon Christmas Counts, various Breeding Bird Surveys and Census', especially the one held at Wachusett Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary.

Nancy and Harry attended all of the club's trips till Nancy's eyesight began to fail. They were at our November, 2003 meeting.

We will all remember her with fondness for her cheeriness, friendliness, inqisitiveness, sense of humor, intelligence, her encouragement to new birders and especially her delight in 'birding'.

The Forbush Bird Club has lost a faithful, loyal and devoted member and friend.

(written by Joan Zumpfe, Forbush Bird Club President).