Retired home economics professor Barbara Csavinszky passes away

Barbara F. (Fraser) Csavinszky, longtime associate professor of home economics and health education at the University of Maine until her 1995 retirement, died Dec. 25 at a Bangor hospital. She was 82.

Csavinszky earned her M.Ed. at UMaine. Her husband, former UMaine physics professor Peter J. Csavinszky, died in 1995.

Contributions in her memory may be given to the Old Town Museum, P.O. Box 375, Old Town, ME 04468. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at a date and time to be announced in January at the Resurrection of the Lord, Holy Family Parish, 429 Main St., Old Town. Condolences may be expressed at BrookingsSmith.com The complete obituary is online.