Elsie
(Jasso) Barbal, 96, of Marblehead, died March 19, 2011 at the Stanley
R. Tippett Hospice Home in Needham, MA from complications resulting
from a fall at her home. She was the wife for 62 years of Peter
Barbal who predeceased her in 2008.
Elsie
was born in Kansas City, Kansas where she graduated from Washington
Ruel High School and Burdett Business School. She was the daughter
of the late John J. and Elizabeth (Currie) Jasso of Kansas City,
Kansas. Elsie had been a resident of Marblehead for the last 59
years where she was a member of the Ladies Sodality of Our Lady Star
of the Sea Church.
During
her lifetime Elsie had many jobs. She worked at John Deere
advertising in Kansas City, Kansas, Fair Baking Company in San
Antonio, Texas, General Electric Company in Boston, Hogue &
Sprague in Lynn, Paris Worcester in Lawrence, and Lenny Goodman in
Haverhill all in cost analysis and accounting.
She
is survived by her daughter, Deborah J. Guyer and husband Dr. Eric C.
Guyer of Dover, MA, her granddaughter Brittany L. Guyer, a doctoral
candidate at MIT, and her sister Virginia L. Benson of San Antonio,
Texas, and many nieces and nephews. Elsie was the sister of the late
John J. Jasso Jr. of Kansas City, Kansas and the late Joseph J. Jasso
of San Bernardino, CA.
Funeral
services will be private. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Marblehead on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 10 a.m. Burial
will be at Waterside Cemetery in Marblehead.
In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the VNA Care
Hospice/Stanley R. Tippett Home, 920 South St. Needham, MA 02492
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