Barbara Tinklepaugh Brislin, age 62, of Northport, died Nov. 30, 2011, at home. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Tuscaloosa Memorial Park with Rev. Marc Burnette officiating with the assistance of Rev. Deacon A. Kelley Hudlow. Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

She was preceded in death by her parents John and Margie Tinklepaugh, her brother Russell Holley Tinklepaugh, her grandparents John and Annie Gale Nichols Tinklepaugh, Cecil and Ethel O’Neal, and her aunt and uncle Ken and Barbara Madsen.

Survivors include her three sons and daughter-in-law, Andrew Scott Brislin and his wife Allison T. Brislin, Dan Russell Brislin both of Tuscaloosa, and Allen O’Neal Brislin of Austin, Texas, and father of her children John W. Brislin of Orange Beach, Ala.; brother John Tinklepaugh, niece Tara Kate Tinklepaugh and her mother Terri L. Tinklepaugh of Tuscaloosa, and best friends Carolyn Keith Pearson of Birmingham, Ala.; and Christine Young of Foley, Alabama; and long time companion Joe Donald Pearson.

Barbara was born Feb. 5, 1949 in Tuscaloosa to John and Margie Tinklepaugh. She attended Northington Elementary School then moved to Northport with her family in 1960 and attended Northport Jr. High then Tuscaloosa High School and graduated in 1967. She then attended Livingston College (now UWA) majoring in Sociology. While there she was a member of Phi Mu Sorority and a Delta Chi Little Sister. Also, she met and married John W. Brislin in (1971). They moved to Selma AL, where she worked at Selma Water Works for over 20 years and had their three sons. She was active in the community with Boy Scouts of America, little league baseball, soccer, and football; and Selma Junior League and Red Hatters, and United Methodist Singles Group. She then moved back to her hometown of Tuscaloosa in 2005 and began a second career at RBC Bank (formerly AmSouth Bank). She was later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer which she fought for the next twenty months until her death.

Her hobbies were smocking and sewing, ceramics, cooking, Alabama football, and traveling.

Pallbearers will be Van Barker, Kevin Carrier, Chris Denson, Alvin Guy, Bob Hewston, Trammell Henry, Brandon Holley, Mike Musgrove, John Oxford, Manuel Pacheco, Greg Smyth, and Yoshiya Watanabe

Honorary Pallbearers will be Dr. Steve Lovelady, Tuscaloosa; Dr. Tina Wood, UAB Oncology; Dr. Jason Fleming, Houston, Texas; Friends and Staff of RBC Bank (Skyland Branch).

The family request that donations be made to the Black Warrior Council Boy Scouts of America, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PANCAN. Org).