Barbara E. (Balzer) Tancreto
Dec 13th, 2017
Barbara E. (Balzer) Tancreto 96 of Destin, FL and formerly of East Dennis was received into the arms of our Heavenly Father on December 13, 2017, for all eternity.
She was the wife of the late Anthony E. Tancreto who died in 2009. They had been married for 62 years.
Barbara was born in Charleston, SC, the second oldest of seven children of the late George Casper and Annie Beatrice (Molony) Balzer.
She was Catholic by faith, attending Our Lady of the Cape Church in Brewster and active in the Woman’s Guild. She worked as a secretary at Harvard University Research Laboratories during WWII, and where she eventually met and married her husband, Tony.
Barbara will be deeply missed by those who loved and respected her as a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. She will once again be joined, as one, with her late husband.
Left to mourn her passing, as we rejoice in her legacy, are her four children, Joyanne Browne, Richard G. Tancreto, Glenn E. Tancreto, and his wife Linda, and Ellen Driscoll; nine grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; five great great grandchildren; her sister Alice Donahue; her sisters-in law Eileen Balzer and Eleanor Collias; “a special daughter” Shirlene McGrath and her husband Ray, special friends Helena McGrath, and Doris Callahan; and numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband and parents, Barbara was predeceased by her three brothers, George, Donald and Paul Balzer, and two sisters, Marianna Leary and Dorothy Villee.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday Dec. 28 in Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Rd., Brewster.
Interment will be private.
Visiting hours will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 27 in the Hallett Funeral Home, 273 Station Ave., South Yarmouth.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.
“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.” Exodus 23:20