(Revs. David and Karen Troxler, pastors of St. Paul’s Church on Summer St., hand over the keys to Duxbury’s new food pantry to Lions Club director Mary Lou O’Connell, vice-president Linda Collins, and Lions president John Killion.)

When people think of Duxbury they think of a community with expensive homes, well-funded local services and successful professionals. Yet for a town nicknamed “Deluxebury,” it might come as a surprise that not everyone is thriving financially.

In fact, times have grown so dire for some families during the Great Recession, the Duxbury Lions Club in now in the process of opening the town’s first food pantry.

By all appearances, Linda Collins, vice-president of the Duxbury Lions and a lifelong Duxbury resident, is successful. She has her own business, Catered Memories, and does some modeling on the side. But a divorce and a tough economy have resulted in her losing her home and soon her car, and services the state used to provide to her disabled son are being pulled due to cuts in the budget.

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