Elizabeth Hopkins Lewis Baer, wife of the late Robert Andrew Baer, Sr., died in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Nove. 12.  Born on January 14, 1920, she was the daughter of Versal Matthews Lewis and David Thomas Lewis.

She met Robert at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.  They were married shortly before Bob, at the time a young lieutenant in the United States Army, left by ship for Europe and our country’s engagement in World War II.  Bob, having been promoted to Captain, finally returned from the War safe and sound and first saw their young daughter, Betsy.  Through the years, business transfers took the couple and their children from Chatham, New Jersey, to Lyons, New York; then back to Summit, New Jersey, then on to Duxbury, enjoying life and making close friends all along the way.

Ms. Baer leaves her children Elizabeth Ann Baer Perkin and Robert A. Baer, Jr.  She was the mother-in-law of Mary Mallory Kountze Baer and the late John Thorne Perkin.  She will be greatly missed by her grandchildren Barrett, Robert III and Annie Baer as well as Christopher, Thorne and Richard Perkin; her daughters-in-law Jenny, Tatiana and Ashley and son-in-law Sebastian; and also her step grandchildren Bart, Will and Molly Jennings. She was also the grandmother of Jack, Cole and Teddy Perkin.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages friends to make a donation to the charity of your choice.