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DATE: MONDAY, July 26, 1993 TAG: 9307260231
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OBIT MOORE, MARJORIE KREHER BARRETT
MOORE, Marjorie Kreher Barrett, 76, of Lexington, died Saturday, July 24,
1993, at her home. She was an active churchwoman and civic leader. She was
born in Manhattan, New York March 20, 1917, graduated from Quinnipiac College
in 1936. She became parish secretary at Trinity Eiscopal Church in New Haven,
Conn., where she met her future husband, the Rev. Thomas van Braam Barrett.
They moved to Lexington in 1951, where, for eight years, her husband served as
Rector of R. E. Lee Memorial Church and Chaplain to the students at W & L and
V.M.I. In addition to various church activities, Mrs. Barrett was
administrative assistant in the journalism department at W & L. The Barretts
moved to Tallahassee, Fla. in 1959 and Berkley, California in 1963 where Mrs.
Barrett worked in the department of Demography at the University of California
and in the Development Dept. of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in
Berkeley. The Barretts retired to Lexington in 1977 where Tom Barrett died in
1978. In 1982, Mrs. Barrett married William (Buck) R. Moore, a native of
Lexington and 1935 graduate of V.M.I. who, during World War II, served at
SHAEF headquarters in Versailles. After the war, Mr. Moore had a career in
structural engineering before retiring in Lexington in 1981. He died Suddenly
in 1985. While living in numerous rectories and working full time, Marjorie
engaged in many church activities and community projects and her love of the
theater led her to play various roles in college and local plays, including
one in which she acted with Paul Newman in a college play at Kenyon College in
Ohio. After returning to Lexington in 1977, she served as senior warden of the
R. E. Lee Memorial Church vestry, a chairwoman of an endowment fund and editor
of the church newspaper. She also wrote Memorials of R. E. Lee Memorial
Church; Seventy-Five Year History of the Lexington Women's Club, and Altar
Guild Handbook. She was also a photographer of note and won first place in the
1991 national photography contest of the General Federation of Womens' Clubs.
Another consuming interest was genealogy. Tom Barrett's family, descendants of
Sir Robert Parke (1585-1665) and Andreas van Braam Houckgeest (1729-1801),
prominent in the Dutch East India Company, were among the earliest settlers of
New England and New York. In 1991 Mrs. Barrett held a world wide reunion of
the van Braam descendants. She is survived by a sister, Muriel Orr, West
Haven, Conn.; two children, Lynne Barrett Lorrier, Lexington and Thomas
Christian van Braam Barrett, Tallahassee, Fla.; and six grandchildren. Funeral
services will be held at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 1993 at R. E. Lee Memorial Church
with the Rev. D. Holmes Irving, Rev. Barbara Taylor, Bishop Heath Light and
Bishop William Marmion officiating. Interment will follow in Stonewall Jackson
Cemetery. The family will receive friends at any time at the residence, Rt. 6,
Box 19 on Borden Road Extension. The family requests that in lieu of flowers,
donations be made to R. E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington or the Rockbridge
Area Hospice, P. O. Box 948, Lexington, Va. 24450. Lomax Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
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