Bobbie Isaacs. Photo courtesy of Newsday.

Even after she retired, Long Island social worker Natalie “Bobbie” Isaacs continued to practice her craft, according to this article in New York’s Newsday.

Isaacs, 82, helped volunteers bring in dogs to comfort other residents at the Haverford, Pa., senior living community where she and her sports columnist husband Stan lived after they retired  six years ago.

Isaacs died on Jan. 22 from cancer. She had worked for almost 30years at Brookville’s AHRC-Nassau,  (formerly known as the Association for the Help of Retarded).

“She listened to people,” said Andy Weickert, a colleague at AHRC-Nassau. “That is what social work is all about. She exemplified what social work is.”

Isaacs is survived by her husband, daughters Nancy Reznick, Ann Isaacs Basch, and Ellen Isaac and four grandchildren.