Lucille
Lucille Barrett
BARRETT
LUCILLE, died Oct. 4, 2015, at age 92. Lou was the matriarch of a large and grateful family.
Lou Barrett was a poet, scholar, teacher and social activist. Her poetry appeared in Midstream, Connecticut River Review, Poetica magazine, Muse, Voices Israel, and the National English Journal. She was honored by the Connecticut Council of Teachers of English and the Connecticut Poetry Society for her work. Her publications include five collections of poetry that explore fearlessly and with intensity her Jewish heritage, her childhood in Brooklyn, and her maturing to adulthood and old age. Through all her writings, she found meaning in the connections between her own life and the symbols and images that have endured in myth, story, and literature throughout the centuries.
Lou Barrett was a great teacher. She was a lifelong teacher in the classroom, transforming lives for decades of students. Beginning her teaching career in Greenwich Village in the 1940s, she later became a beloved teacher of English literature in the Westport Public Schools, where after retirement she continued as a writing coach. She shared her love of Jewish literature and scholarship with classes at Temple Israel in Westport, Connecticut and in Congregation Kol Ami in Jenkintown, PA, where she and her husband for 73 years, the late Herbert Barrett, lived in their later years.
Lou was a teacher, not only in the classroom, but in the way she raised her family. She had the instinct great teachers have: to reach and connect with every student, every child and grandchild according to his or her own personality and passions. She believed in her students, her children, and her friends, and strove to help them see in themselves the strength and beauty she saw in them. She treated every one with honesty and respect.
Lucille Barrett is survived by five children, David, Joshua, Sarah, George, and Daniel, ten grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, October 6th, at 12:30 P.M. at Temple Israel in Westport Connecticut, with private burial service following. The family will sit shiva after the burial at the home of Marvin and Joan Frimmer in Westport, Ct. They will also be sitting shiva Wednesday, October 7th, from 5 - 8 P.M. at the home of George Barrett and Debbie Neimeth, in Rydal, Pa. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Congregation Kol Ami, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania or Temple Israel, Westport, Connecticut.
LUCILLE, died Oct. 4, 2015, at age 92. Lou was the matriarch of a large and grateful family.
Lou Barrett was a poet, scholar, teacher and social activist. Her poetry appeared in Midstream, Connecticut River Review, Poetica magazine, Muse, Voices Israel, and the National English Journal. She was honored by the Connecticut Council of Teachers of English and the Connecticut Poetry Society for her work. Her publications include five collections of poetry that explore fearlessly and with intensity her Jewish heritage, her childhood in Brooklyn, and her maturing to adulthood and old age. Through all her writings, she found meaning in the connections between her own life and the symbols and images that have endured in myth, story, and literature throughout the centuries.
Lou Barrett was a great teacher. She was a lifelong teacher in the classroom, transforming lives for decades of students. Beginning her teaching career in Greenwich Village in the 1940s, she later became a beloved teacher of English literature in the Westport Public Schools, where after retirement she continued as a writing coach. She shared her love of Jewish literature and scholarship with classes at Temple Israel in Westport, Connecticut and in Congregation Kol Ami in Jenkintown, PA, where she and her husband for 73 years, the late Herbert Barrett, lived in their later years.
Lou was a teacher, not only in the classroom, but in the way she raised her family. She had the instinct great teachers have: to reach and connect with every student, every child and grandchild according to his or her own personality and passions. She believed in her students, her children, and her friends, and strove to help them see in themselves the strength and beauty she saw in them. She treated every one with honesty and respect.
Lucille Barrett is survived by five children, David, Joshua, Sarah, George, and Daniel, ten grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, October 6th, at 12:30 P.M. at Temple Israel in Westport Connecticut, with private burial service following. The family will sit shiva after the burial at the home of Marvin and Joan Frimmer in Westport, Ct. They will also be sitting shiva Wednesday, October 7th, from 5 - 8 P.M. at the home of George Barrett and Debbie Neimeth, in Rydal, Pa. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Congregation Kol Ami, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania or Temple Israel, Westport, Connecticut.
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