Cecilia M. Barrett

1925 - 2022

of N. Chelmsford, MA

N. Chelmsford

Mrs. Cecilia Maria (Murphy) Barrett of N. Chelmsford died Monday, October 31, 2022 at Royal Nursing Rehabilitation in Braintree, her home since January 2022.

She was married to the late Mr. Andrew W. Barrett who died July 4, 1992.

Born in Lowell, MA on June 19, 1925, the daughter of the late Cornelius D. and Cecilia (Tenney) Murphy. She was a graduate of Lowell High School with the class of 1943.

She was employed as a secretary with General Electric in Lowell until her marriage in 1953.

She was a past communicant of St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Lowell, and an active communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church of N. Chelmsford where she was a Eucharistic Minister, a member of the Nocturnal Prayer Group, the Secular Order of St. Francis, and Captain of membership of Poor Charities.

She was a member of Chelmsford Senior Citizen Club where she was part of its chorus and the Wine Women and Song Group. Her hobbies included music, poetry, painting and spending quality time with family and friends.

She is survived by three daughters, Anne Barrett and her husband, Philip Robertson of Dorchester, MA, Mary C. Barrett of Lacey, WA, Margaret M. Barrett-Hall and her husband, Thomas of Quincy, MA, a son, Martin F. Barrett of Glendale, CA, nine grandchildren, Martha and her husband, Tyler McMillan and Harry Robertson, Andrew and Ian Turner, Grace, Catherine, and John Hall, Marisol and Harrison Barrett, as well as many nieces, nephews, and close family friends.

She was the mother of the late John A. Barrett of Merrimack, NH who died September 6, 2006 and the late Andrew W. Barrett of Lowell, who died October 20, 2021, and the mother-in-law to the late Garnest Turner who died November 1, 2018. She was the sister of the late Cornelius and John Murphy, the late Helen Cotter, the late Catherine Bagley, and the late Dorothy Leavitt.

The family would like to thank the staff of Royal Nursing Rehabilitation for the loving care they provided Cecilia and the family.

Cecilia lived an exceptional life of 97 years.

Cecilia's visiting hours will be Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 from 3 to 7 PM. Funeral Friday at 8am from the DOLAN FUNERAL HOME, 106 MIDDLESEX ST. CHELMSFORD, with a funeral Mass at 9am at St. John the Evangelist Church, N. Chelmsford. Burial in St. Patrick Cemetery, Lowell. Memorials may be made in her name to the Poor Claire's, 445 River Rd, Andover, MA 01810 or St. John the Evangelist Church, 115 Middlesex St., N. Chelmsford, MA 01863. ARRANGEMENTS BY DOLAN FUNERAL HOME 978-251-4041. Guestbook at www.dolanfuneralhome.com