In Memoriam: Barbara Dell, 1952-2019

Barbara Dell died Jan. 1 after battling cancer. She was 66.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. February 15, 2019
Barbara Dell turned her passion for fashion and for people into Dress for Success Southwest Florida. She died Jan. 1 at age 66.
Barbara Dell turned her passion for fashion and for people into Dress for Success Southwest Florida. She died Jan. 1 at age 66.
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Connie Ramos-Williams remembers how she met Barbara Dell in 2009, shortly after the recession cost Dell her job in the fashion industry. Ramos-Williams, it turns out, had started a business-to-business networking group to help match people with jobs.

 

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