Barbara memorial

About 200 people gathered on a Maine beach Sunday — some with dogs in tow — to remember Barbara Bush, who with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, spent years at their summer home in Kennebunkport.

Barbara Bush died on Tuesday at home in Houston at the age of 92. She was laid to rest on Saturday at her husband’s presidential library in Texas.

At the Maine memorial, some also donated children’s books to be given to local libraries and a children’s hospital in her memory.

“That’s our farewell to Barbara,” said Diane Denk, who helped organize the memorial and often saw Bush on the beach with her dogs.

“Barbara was just a real stand-up lady,” Denk said. “She was very philanthropic, she and George . . . they loved their community, they loved the state, they donated to children’s hospitals, they donated to just about every philanthropic cause around here.”