Daughter of William and Rita (Fantasia) Cornell, she was born in Providence, Rhode Island, Condolences may be made online on October 30, 1949. She graduated from Cranston West High School. She then studied music at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, and later received her undergraduate degree in History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. On June 13, 1982, she married Dr. David L. Enright in Belmont, Massachusetts. They started their family in Rochester, New York, moved to Bemidji, Minnesota in 1985, and settled in Bath in 1988.
Barbara is survived by her husband, Dr. David L. Enright of Woolwich; one daughter, Jordana Byrd and her husband Louis of Virginia Beach, Virginia; two sons, Christopher Enright and his partner, Sarah Jane Waltman of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Andrew Enright of Burlington, Vermont; one brother, Norman O’Brien and his wife Dolores of Cranston, Rhode Island; four grandchildren, Myles Slutsky, Ava Slutsky, Kingston Byrd, and Soleil Byrd; and ten nieces and nephews.
A Service of Remembrance will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2016, at the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath. Contributions may be made to Big Brothers Big Sisters, 85 Maine Street, Brunswick, 04011 or to Bath Area Food Bank, P.O, Box 65, Bath 04530.
A full obituary may be viewed at www.DaigleFuneralHome.com, where condolences may be made.
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