Beverly Cochran Fleming, devoted mother of four children and lover of gardens, walking and everything outdoors, died on July 9 at the Piper Shores retirement community in Scarborough, Me. She was 93. She died four months after her husband of 71 years, Samuel W. Fleming 3rd, died at Piper Shores where they both lived.

Babs — or Babbie, as her grandchildren called her — grew up in Owings Mills, Md., the daughter of Peyton S. Cochran and May Curtin Cochran. She graduated from the Calvert School and Greenwood School in Baltimore.

After meeting on the Jersey Shore, Babs and Sam married in 1947, living briefly in Brunswick, Me., where Sam attended Bowdoin College, before settling in Pennsylvania for almost four decades. Babs spent some of her happiest years raising her family in Hidden Valley, a nirvana-like getaway seven miles outside of Harrisburg, Pa. She spent endless hours tending her English-style gardens while racing after children who were swimming, climbing trees, playing sports and creating general havoc. Keeping kids and cousins away from her box bushes was a constant concern.

In the late 1960s Babs and Sam moved to Malvern and Wayne, Pa., outside Philadelphia, before retiring in 1988 and resettling in Charleston, S.C. They eventually relocated back to Maine in 2003. Babs adored South Carolina’s low country, where slow-moving marshes and magnificent magnolias and large oaks evoked old Southern splendor. She walked for hours every day around Yeamans Hall Club, accompanied by her beloved Norfolk terrier Maggie, or golden retriever Sneakers. She usually walked alone because nobody else could keep up with her. Babs and Sam spent their summers in Edgartown where they developed many of their deepest friendships and happiest memories. She loved digging for softshell clams and was a constant sight during low tides in Katama Bay. She also loved eating lobsters. Sunbathing, sailing, swimming and sauntering barefoot in blue jeans also brought her enormous pleasure, far more than being cooped up inside at an Edgartown cocktail party.

To all who knew her, Babs was a Cochran through and through, much like her father Peyton. She was insightful and devoted, had a wonderful dry wit and used her words sparingly, but always with great effect. She was a polar opposite from her husband Sam, who cherished an audience as much as she cherished a quiet walk with no one but her dogs. Together, they meshed beautifully, sharing smiles, kisses and friendly barbs for all of their 71 years.

She is survived by her four children: Sarah Fleming Tomkins of Brooksville, Me., Nan Fleming of Williamsburg, Sam Fleming of Cambridge and Chilmark, and Peyton Fleming of Brookline. She had six grandchildren: Kate Tomkins, Peter Tomkins, Wilder Fleming, Nathanial Fleming, Amory Fleming and Minti Daley-Fleming, and three great grandchildren, Olivier Viennot, Tom Viennot and Emerson Tomkins.

She was predeceased by her siblings, Gertrude Ridgley, Peyton S. Cochran Jr. and Maisie Cochran.

Services will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Edgartown Free Public Library.