BETHLEHEM – Barbara J. Quigley, 77, wife of the late Fennelly T. Quigley, passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, surrounded by her family.
Born on May 25, 1940 in Doylestown, Pa., daughter of the late Frank and Virginia (Servis) Von Webern, she worked as a LPN for more than 30 years and happily married for nearly 53 years.
From 1970 to 1974, she was assistant charge nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery at the University of Tennessee Research Center and Hospital, Knoxville. While there she was highly instrumental in the establishment of the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery (only the second in the country at the time).
Over the next 26 years, Barbara was charge nurse at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville. From there, staff nurse at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and held nursing positions in Connecticut at the Child Care Centers of Waterbury, the Lutheran Home of Southbury, the Griffin Hospital ER, Derby, Abbott Terrace Health Care Center, Waterbury, and the Greenery of Cheshire.
She also was a Girl Scouts leader, Red Cross CPR and basic First Aid instructor, volunteer for the Bethlehem Volunteer Ambulance Association and an avid football fan.
Barbara is survived by her daughter, Bridget Blakley (Quigley); her son, Michael Quigley and his wife, Karen Quigley; also survived by her sisters Peggy Knight, Mary Mulligan, Kathleen Von Webern and Jamie Brown; many nieces and nephews, cousins, friends and colleagues; and her three loving dogs.
A funeral Mass in celebration of Barbara’s life will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at the Church of the Nativity, 48 East St., Bethlehem, 06751. Arrangements are by Munson-Lovetere Funeral Home of Woodbury.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Bethlehem Volunteer Ambulance Association, 85 Main St. South, Bethlehem, CT 06751.
Online condolences can be left at munsonloveterefuneralhome.com.
