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- Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
January 11, 2002
FLAT ROCK, N.C. -- Diane (Palady) Barry, 72, of Flat Rock, formerly of Grafton, Mass., former medical secretary, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, in Pardee Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
She leaves her husband of 44 years, James M. Barry; two daughters, Heather N. Andrade of Auburn, Mass., and Deborah V. Umphries of Terre Haute, Ind.; a son, Craig McKee Barry of Shrewsbury, Mass.; and six grandchildren. She was born in Massachusetts, daughter of Theodore F. and Vera A.E. Palady, and lived in Brevard before moving to Flat Rock in 1999. She graduated from Lasell Junior College in Newton, Mass.
Mrs. Barry was a medical secretary at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. From 1977 to 1987, she was a secretary to the Massachusetts Christmas Tree Association, while she and her husband raised Christmas trees. She earned status as a master gardener with the Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Service and was program chairman of the Grafton Garden Club, director of the Grafton Land Trust and president of the Friends of Grafton Public Library.
She was an active member of First Congregational Church of Hendersonville and a former member of Evangelical Congregational Church, Grafton. She taught English to Mexican immigrants at Blue Ridge Community College. She was also a Girl Scout leader.
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