Margaret Barrett

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Margaret Barrett, mother of Father Michael Barrett and the late Father Brian Barrett, died June 24. She was 94.

Father Michael Barrett, a priest of Opus Dei, is the pastor of St. Agnes parish, Manhattan, and Father Brian Barrett, a priest of the archdiocese, served as professor of moral theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, before his death in 1996.

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, she was a graduate of Cathedral High School and St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing, both in Manhattan.

Her daughters, Aileen Ferrick, Marie Clifford and Teresa Hamdan, also survive her as well as 10 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and her sister, Anne Murphy. Her husband of 52 years, Patrick Barrett, predeceased her.

A Funeral Mass was offered June 28 at St. Joseph’s Church, Bronxville. Burial was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne.

Margaret Barrett